1. We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn police action in and around University of Hyderabad, from the 22 of March onwards. We criticize extreme police brutality, lathi charge, threats of rape and verbal abuse done to the students and faculty members of UoH.
2. We demand to know the whereabouts of the faculty members and students who were made to disappear on the 22nd March. We condemn the false charges under which they are rumoured to have been booked. We condemn the police attack on students preparing food, the detaining of students for ‘cooking in a public space’ and the insinuation that they had to be taught a lesson because they might have been cooking beef!
3. We condemn the UoH administration’s cutting off of water, electricity, internet and food to the campus residents. Nothing, no trumped up charge merits this kind of denial of basic necessities, and this action taken by the administration and aided by the police is CASTEISM, whereby the authorities feel justified to ‘teaching’ dissenting voices a lesson, in the manner of feudal upper caste landlords.
4. We demand a response from the Telangana state government, which has supplied police to meet the nefarious demands of tainted and on-leave VC Appa Rao. A government which was formed on the demands of equality of the disadvantaged sections of society must hang its head in shame due to its complicity with the casteist UoH admin.
5. VC Appa Rao Podile assumed office on the 22nd of March even though he has been booked under the SC ST Atrocities Act. Instead of arresting him, the police aided him in postponing the Academic Council meeting and shutting down university amenities. Appa Rao must go! The judicial probe and the MHRD probe against him be concluded impartially and at the earliest, and those responsible for Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder punished.
6. We also condemn the national media’s silence over this state of emergency imposed on UoH, demand that the UoH community’s voice be heard and adequately represented, as the gravity of the situation merits. This media blackout reeks of casteism and complicity with Hindtutva forces, and must be resisted by all means.
7. Casteism is the most deeply entrenched reality of modern India. Our public spaces, universities, and academia are as much a part of it, as our institutions of marriage, dining and religion. We urge the academic community in India and abroad to support UoH in its fight against casteism and fascism in the same manner in which it has supported elite institutions in the past.

Jai Bhim!

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1. Ananya Chatterjee, Haldia Govt. College, WB
2. Suman Nath, Haldia Govt College, WB
3. Ubai Rehman
4. Javid Ahmad Lone
5. Veena naregal Nidhin S R
6. Jenny Rowena, Delhi University
7. Samata Biswas, Bethune College, KOlkata
8. Donvan Jailsing Nayaka, Ambedkar Phule Study Circle, IIT Bombay
9. Anindya Sengupta
10. Tara Amrapally Basumataray
11. BRP Bhaskar, Chennai
12. Anita Cherain
13. Usman Ali
14. Rajat Dutta, CHS, JNU
15. Debarati Das, JNU
16. Anil Tharayith Varghese, Delhi
17. V Ramaswamy,CRG, Kolkata
18. Neju George,
19. Muhammad Afsal, Doha, Qatar
20. Shaheen Ahmed, Delhi
21. Iman Mitra, CRG, Kolkata
22. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, faculty, CSSSC.
23. Ranabir Samaddar, Distinguished Chair, CRG.
24. Dipyaman Adhikary, MASUM
25. Asmita Das, Jadavpur University
26. Neeraja Sasikumar, Kerala
27. Ann George, EFLU, Hyderabad
28. Aby Abraham, CUK, Kerala
29. Mithilesh Kumar, CRG.
30. Madhura Chakraborty, Goa
31. Boshisattava Kar, UCT
32. Premangshu Ray
33. Saikat Ghosh, University of Delhi
34. Nirjhar Bose
35. Ketaki Chowkhani, TISS Mumbai
36. Blaise Joseph
37. Anwesha Barari Chatterjee
38. Richa Gupta
39. Bonojit Hussain, Assam,
40. Mohamed Jansher Khan, TISS Hyd
41. Loiya Leima Oinam
42. Partha Pratim Barua, delhi.
43. Bhargav Rani
44. Tarique Anwar
45. Rochelle Pinto
46. Indranil Dutta
47. Salim Divakaran
48. Gurpreet Sidhu
49. Prabhat Jha, Patna University
50. Sudipto Basu, jadavpur University
51. Paromita Patronobish, Delhi
52. Chinnaiyan Lakshmanan
53. Kamal Rajbangshi, Assam Engineering College
54. Krittika Mondal, JNU
55. Somdatta Bhattacharya, Pilani
56. Prakash K ray, bargad.org
57. Shipra Nigam, JNU
58. MP Dhaneesh, JNU
59. Mahaprajna Nayak, Alumni UoH
60. Ranjith Thankappan, EFLU
61. Veena Vimala Mani, IIT Chennai
62. N Manohar Reddy, EFLU
63. Muhammaed Afzal P, EFLU
64. Sherin BS, EFLU
65. Maitryei Karnoor, Bangalore
66. Bhuvi Gupta, Delhi
67. Rini Dasgupta, Bangalore
68. Narayan M Sankaran, EFLU
69. Santhosh Kumar Sakhinala, Hyderabad
70. Deepti Sreeram, New Delhi
71. Brinda Bose, New Delhi
72. Rakesh Kumar Singh,
73. Debaditya Bhattacharya, University of Calcutta
74. Feba Rasheed
75. Shameem Thalapurath
76. Ganpat Teli
77. Riyas Razack
78. Yasmin Majeed
79. Paula Banerjee, Professor, Calcutta University
80. Sucharita Sengupta, CRG
81. Snehashish Mitra, CRG
82. Ayesha Kidwai
83. Vinay Sarawagi
84. Amrita Queen
85. Richa Sophie Srishti
86. Vani Mecheril
87. Tarun Bhartiya, Thma U Rangli-Juki (TUR) Shillong
88. Nalini Taneja
89. Nandini Rao
90. Vani Mecheril
91. Vijay Kumar Yadavendu
92. Vebhuti Duggal
93. Lalit Rajkumar
94. Zafar Ullah
95. Indu Chandrasekhar
96. Reena Ashem
97. Kesang Kinzom Thakur
98. Parni Ray
99. Naresh Prerna
100. Azhar Uddin Sahaji Chaitanya, Ambedkar University, Delhi
101. Suvir Kaul
102. Tawheed N Baba, Karnatak University Dharawad
103. Usha Aravamudhan Saxena
104. Riz Khan
105. Arunima S Mukherjee
106. Sucharita Sen
107. Karthick Narayanan
108. Anasua Bhattacharya
109. Abhirami Sriram, Class of ’99, Department of English, HCU
110. Anand Chandu Lal
111. Rajorshi Das
112. Malavika Rao
113. Ka Josh
114. Hany Babu, DU
115. Kanika Katyal
116. Samuel Asir Raj
117. Andi Asmita
118. Babasaheb Kambale
119. Arindam Sengupta
120. Rina Ramdev
121. Cynthia Stephen
122. Anupam Saikia
123. Rosmin Mathew
124. Caroline Osella
125. Aritra Chakraborti
126. Bharat Iyer
127. Arifa Vanimel
128. Vinita Teresa
129. Sonia Vijayakumar
130. Chandra Sivakumar
131. Tamoghna Halder, University of California, Davis
132. Rowena Robinson
133. Nayana Thankachan
134. Gopal Pradhan
135. Shruti Sareen, Department of English, Delhi University
136. Atig Ghosh
137. Satyadeep Deep
138. Mahammud Yusuf
139. Sanjeev Sreedharan
140. Ajith Cherian
141. Kunal Chattopadhyay, Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
142. TN Uma Devi
143. Priyamvada Gopal, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
144. Subash Jeyan
145. Sharmadip Basu, Azim Premji University
146. Riz Khan
147. Bindu Menon, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi
148. Kiran Tandon
149. Rucha Satoor
150. Arjab Roy, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
151. Dr Rashmi Varma, University of Warwick, UK
152. Sunil Joseph
153. Lata Panicker
154. Sanghita Sen
155. Shabnam Surita, Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
156. Atrei Chatterjee, Department of English, Jadavpur University
157. Shruti Sinha
158. Ritika Sahu
159. Abhigna
160. Tarit Chowdhuri
161. Vivek Lakshmanan
162. Kanupriya Kaikeya
163. Parul Bhardwaj
164. Ishita Dey
165. Arnab Deb
166. Stalina HBS
167. Madhurilata Basu
168. Marva Marva
169. Asima Das, Serampore College, Kolkata
170. Indrani Pal
171. Sithanthi Alfred
172. Anuradha Kapoor
173. Rajesh Acharya
174. Apeksha Priyadarshini
175. Minu Philipose
176. Bidisha Chatterjee
177. Arunlekha Sengupta
178. Ashish Awasthi
179. Imran Kazi
180. Ravindran Daniel
181. Kabir Chattopadhyay, Trinity College, Dublin
182. Sandra Eliswa
183. Premankur Biswas
184. Chetan Anand
185. Kripal Singh Mandloi
186. Ratul Ghosh
187. Shirsho Dasgupta
188. Garima Gupta
189. Purna Bannerjee
190. Sreyashi Ray
191. Shrabani Mukherjee
192. Oyndrila Sarkar
193. Somdutto Bhattacharyya
194. Rose Sebastian
195. Shrayragi Israni
196. Sharmila Purkayastha
197. Shyamal Bhattacharya
198. Edwin Aleixo Braganza
199. Sherna Dastur
200. Pratyay Bannerjee
201. Nanda Joylal
202. Rekha Abel
203. NP Shameer
204. Svenja Svensson
205. Sharada Vinod
206. Soma KP
207. Anjantha Subramanian
208. Sreekrishnan KP
209. Saburi Pandita
210. Zia Mydin
211. Gurveen Kaur
212. Vinutha Mallya
213. Radhakrishnan Govindan
214. Aritra Das