Monitoring Desk: “Let us have another child. If our Faiz gets killed at least we will have one more to call our own”.
These words are self-explanatory, expressing uncertainties of mothers about wellbeing of their children living in caged Indian Occupied Kashmir.
Every person irrespective of gender and age lives with horror and fear of losing their family members because they know that their fathers, brothers, sons, daughters, wives and even mothers can be abducted, tortured and killed and thrown at roadside by Indian Armed forces.
A Fact Finding Reports conducted by Indian civil society members about Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) help to understand gravity of atrocities being faced by Kashmiris in IoK.
The titled “Women’s Voice: Fact Finding Report on Kashmir” was documented during 17 to 21 September 2019 by five-membered team comprising of Annie Raja, Kawaljit Kaur, Pankhuri Zaheer from National Federation Indian Women, Poonam Kaushik from Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan and Syeda Hameed from Muslim Women’s Forum.
Team visited Srinagar, several villages in the districts of Shopian, Pulwama and Bandipora.
Pointers of Fact Finding Report are hereunder:
Shops closed, hotels closed, schools, colleges, institutes and universities closed, streets deserted was the first visual impact as we drove out from the airport.
Punitive environments were felt that blocked breathing freely.
The picture of Kashmir that rises before our eyes is not the populist image; shikara, houseboat, lotus, Dal Lake. It is that of women, Zubeida, Shamima, Khurshida standing at the door of their homes, waiting. Waiting and waiting for their 14, 15, 17 and 19 year old sons. Their last glimpse is embedded in each heart, they dare not give up hope but they know it will be a long wait before they see their tortured bodies or their corpses… if they do. ‘We have been caged’ these words we heard everywhere. Doctors, teachers, students, workers asked us, “What would you do in Delhi if internet services were cut off for 5 minutes?” We had no answer.
Across all villages of the four districts, peoples’ experiences were the same. They all spoke of lights, which had to be turned off around 8PM after Maghreb prayers. In Bandipora, we saw a young girl who made the mistake of keeping a lamp lit to read for her exam on the chance that her school may open soon. Army men angered by this breach of ‘curfew’, jumped the wall to barge in. Father and son, the only males in the house were taken away for questioning. ‘What questions?’, no one dared ask.
The two have been detained since then. ‘We insist that men should go indoors after 6 PM. Man or boy seen after dusk is a huge risk. If absolutely necessary, we women go outside’. These words were spoken by Zarina from a village near Bandipora district headquarters. ‘In a reflex action, my four year old places a finger on her lips when she hears a dog bark after dusk. Barking dogs mean an imminent visit by army. I can’t switch on the phone for light so I can take my little girl to the toilet. Light shows from far and if that happens our men pay with their lives’.
Boys as young as 14 or 15 are taken away, tortured, some for as long as 45 days. Their papers are taken away, families not informed. Old FIR’s are not closed. Phones are snatched; collect it from the army camp they are told. No one in his senses ever went back, even for a slightly expensive phone. A woman recounted how they came for her 22 year old son. But since his hand was in plaster they took away her 14 year old instead. In another village we heard that two men were brutally beaten. No reason. One returned, after 20 days, broken in body and spirit. The other is still in custody. One estimate given to us was 13000 boys lifted during this lockdown. They don’t even spare our rations. During random checking of houses which occurs at all odd hours of the night, the army persons come in and throw out the family. A young man working as SPO told us. ‘We keep a sizeable amount of rice, pulses, edible oil in reserve. Kerosene is mixed in the ration bins, sometimes that, sometimes koyla’.
The living people are inadvertently tortured by the dead. ‘People die without warning or mourning. How will I inform my sisters about their mother’s death?’ Ghulam Ahmed’s voice was choked. ‘They are in Traal, in Pattan. I had to perform her soyem without her children’. The story was the same wherever we went. People had no means of reaching out to loved ones. 43 days were like the silence of death.
Public transportation was zero. People who had private cars took them out only for essential chores. Women stood on roadsides, flagging cars and bikes for rides. People stopped and helped out; helplessness of both sides was their unspoken bond.
At a Lalla Ded Women’s Hospital in Srinagar several young women doctors expressed their absolute frustration at the hurdles that had been placed in their way since the abrogation of Article 370. ‘There are cases where women cannot come in time for deliveries. There are very few ambulances, the few that are running are stopped at pickets on the way. The result? There are several cases of overdue deliveries that produce babies with birth deformities. It is a lifelong affliction, living death for parents”. Conversely, we were told that several women are delivering babies prematurely due to the stress and khauf (fear) in the present condition. “It feels like the government is strangling us and then sadistically asking us to speak at the same time,’ a young woman doctor said as she clutched her throat to show how she felt.
A senior doctor from Bandipora Hospital told us that people come from Kulgam, Kupwara, and other districts. Mental disorders, heart attacks, today there are more cases than he could ever recall. For emergencies junior doctors desperately look for seniors; there is no way of reaching them on phone. If they are out of the premises, they run on the streets shouting, asking, searching in sheer desperation. One orthopaedic doctor from SKIMS was stopped at the army imposed blockade while he was going for duty. He was held for 7 days. Safia in Shopian had cancer surgery. ‘I desperately need a check up in case it has recurred. Baji, I can’t reach my doctor. The only way is to go to the city, but how do I get there? And if I do, will he be there?’ Ayushman Bharat, an internet based scheme, cannot be availed by doctors and patients.
Women in villages stood before us with vacant eyes. ‘How do we know where they are? Our boys who were taken away, snatched away from our homes. Our men go to the police station, they are asked to go to the headquarters. They beg rides from travellers and some manage to get there. On the board are names of ‘stone pelters’ who have been lodged in different jails, Agra, Jodhpur, Ambedkar, Jhajjar.’ A man standing by adds, ‘Baji we are crushed. Only a few of us who can beg and borrow, go hundreds of miles only to be pushed around by hostile jail guards in completely unfamiliar cities.’
At Gurdwaras we met women who said they have always felt secure in Kashmir. ‘Molestation of women in rest of India about which we read is unheard of in Kashmir’. Young women complained they were harassed by army, including removal of their niqab
‘Army pounces on young boys; it seems they hate their very sight. When fathers go to rescue their children they are made to deposit money, anywhere between 20000 to 60000’. So palpable is their hatred for Kashmiri youth that when there is the dreaded knock on the door of a home, an old man is sent to open it. ‘We hope and pray they will spare a buzurg. But their slaps land on all faces, regardless whether they are old or young, or even the very young. In any case, Baji, we keep our doors lightly latched so they open easily with one kick’. The irony of these simply spoken words!
Tehmina from Anantnag recently urged her husband, ‘Let us have another child. If our Faiz gets killed at least we will have one more to call our own. Abdul Haleem was silent. He could see the dead body of his little boy lying on his hands even as she spoke these words. ‘Yeh sun kar, meri ruh kaanp gayi,” he tells us.
A thirty-year-old lawyer from Karna was found dead in his rented accommodation. He was intensely depressed. Condolence notice was issued by Secy Bar Association. Immediately after that he was taken into custody. Why? We spoke to a JK policeman. All of them have been divested of their guns and handed dandas. ‘How do you feel, losing your guns?’ ‘Both good and bad’ came the reply. ‘Why?’ Good because we were always afraid of them being snatched away. Bad because we have no means now to defend ourselves in a shootout. One woman security guard said ‘Indian govt wants to make this a Palestine. This will be fought by the us, Kashmiris’. One young professional told us, ‘We want freedom. We don’t want India, we don’t want Pakistan. We will pay any price for this. Ye Kashmiri khoon hai. Koi bhi qurbani denge’.
Everywhere we went there were two inexorable sentiments. First, desire for Azadi; they want nothing of either India or Pakistan. The humiliation and torture they have suffered for 70 years has reached a point of no return. Abrogation of 370 some say has snapped the last tie they had with India. Even those people who always stood with the Indian State have been rejected by the Govt. ‘So, what is the worth in their eyes, of us, ordinary Kashmiris?’ Since all their leaders have been placed under PSA or under house arrest, the common people have become their own leaders. Their suffering is untold, so is their patience. The second, was the mothers anguished cries (who had seen many children’s corpses with wounds from torture) asking for immediate stop to this brutalisation of innocents. Their children’s lives should not be snuffed out by gun and jackboots.
As we report our experiences and observations of our stay in Kashmir, we end with two conclusions. That the Kashmiri people have in the last 50 days shown an amazing amount of resilience in the face of brutality and blackout by the Indian government and the army. The incidents that were recounted to us sent shivers down our spines and this report only summarises some of them. We salute the courage and resoluteness of the Kashmiri people. Secondly, we reiterate that nothing about the situation is normal. All those claiming that the situation is slowly returning to normalcy are making false claims based on distorted facts.
We Demand:
- FOR NORMALCY Withdraw the Army and Paramilitary forces with immediate effect
- FOR CONFIDENCE BUILDING Immediately Cancel all cases/ FIRs and Release all those, especially the youth who are under custody and in jail since the Abrogation of Article 370
- FOR ENSURING JUSTICE Conduct inquiry on the widespread violence and tortures unleashed by the Army and other security personnel.
- COMPENSATION to all those families whose loved ones lost lives because of non-availability of transportation and absence of communication.
In Addition:
- Immediately restore all communication lines in Kashmir including internet and mobile networks.
- Restore Article 370 and 35 A.
- All future decisions about the political future of Jammu and Kashmir must be taken through a process of dialogue with the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
- All army personnel must be removed from the civilian areas of Jammu and Kashmir.
- An time bound inquiry committee must be constituted to look into the excesses committed by the army.
Meanwhile, a statement on the situation in Kashmir has been released by a group of over 500 Indians academics and scientists.
The Statement stated as:
We are a group of Indian academics and scientists.
We are writing to express our deep concern about the crisis in Kashmir that has now persisted for over a month, and which was precipitated by the government’s decision to de-operationalize Article 370 of the Constitution and to end Jammu and Kashmir’s full statehood. Since then, the government has restricted communications in Kashmir, detained opposition leaders and dissidents, and flooded the state with security personnel.
As signatories to this statement, we hold various views on the issue of Article 370 and other substantive questions about the conflict in Kashmir. However, we agree on the following points:
- We are appalled by the government’s decision to restrict telecommunications and the internet in Kashmir for over a month. We understand that landlines have been restored in some parts of Kashmir, but since landline teledensity in Kashmir is below 1% according to the government’s own statistics , this measure has failed to provide substantive relief to Kashmir’s residents. In our own institutions, we have witnessed students suffering because they are unable to maintain contact with their families. Moreover, credible reports suggest that these restrictions have made it difficult for ordinary people in Kashmir to procure medical and essential supplies or even for children to attend school.
- We believe the government’s actions in detaining and restricting the communications of opposition leaders and dissidents in Kashmir are deeply undemocratic. Whatever views one might hold about these individuals, a fundamental norm in a democracy is that the party in power does not have the right to lock up its political opponents when they have not even been accused of any crimes.
- We are disturbed by the multiple reports of human rights violations in Kashmir by Indian security forces. , ,
We would like to express our solidarity with the people of Kashmir and offer our support to those outside Kashmir, who have been cut off from their families and friends as a result of these decisions taken by the government of India.
We remind the government that it is duty-bound to uphold the rights and protect the welfare of all of its citizens. In line with these obligations, we call on the government to immediately restore full communications in Kashmir, lift the security restrictions that are hampering ordinary life, release dissidents and opposition leaders, and conduct transparent and impartial investigations into the allegations of human rights abuses.
List of Signatories (Name and Affiliation)
(The institutional affiliations provided here are only for the purpose of identification and do not indicate the official positions of these organizations.)
S.No. | Name | Institution |
1 | Abhisodh Prakash | International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
2 | Suvrat Raju | International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
3 | Adhip Agarwala | International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
4 | Junaid Majeed | International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
5 | Tuneer Chakraborty | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
6 | Apratim Ganguly | ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore |
7 | Parita Mehta | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
8 | Animesh Nanda | ICTS-TIFR |
9 | Srashti Goyal | International Center for Theoretical Sciences |
10 | Subhadip Chakraborti | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru |
11 | Divya Jaganathan | ICTS-TIFR |
12 | Faizan Bhat | ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru |
13 | Omkar Shetye | ICTS |
14 | Rituparna Ghosh | |
15 | Aditya Kumar Sharma | International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
16 | Md Arif Shaikh | International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore |
17 | Saientan Bag | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
18 | Zaid Zaz | TIFR (Visiting Student) |
19 | SUBRATA DEV | |
20 | Abhishek Dhar | International centre for theoretical sciences, TIFR, Bangalore |
21 | Sumilan Banerjee | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
22 | Aurnab Ghose | IISER Pune |
23 | Shubha Tewari | |
24 | Deepak Malghan | Indian Institue of Management Bangalore |
25 | Sumit Kumar | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, AEI, Hannover, Germany |
26 | Sharad Lele | |
27 | Bikram Phookun | St Stephen’s College |
28 | Abu Anand | University of Toronto |
29 | Rahul Varman | IIT Kanpur |
30 | Siddharth K J | Independent Researcher, Bengaluru |
31 | Bhavtosh Bansal | IISER Kolkata |
32 | Debjani Sengupta | IP College, Delhi University |
33 | U. K. Anandavardhanan | IIT Bombay |
34 | Zoya Hasan | Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
35 | Ayesha Kidwai | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
36 | Neenu Suresh | National Law School of India University, Bangalore |
37 | Vineeta Bal | National Institute of Immunology |
38 | Joby Joseph | University of Hyderabad |
39 | Kabir Husain | University of Chicago |
40 | Cynthia Stephen | Independent researcher |
41 | Mohini Mullick | Retired from IIT-Kanpur |
42 | Rahul Roy | Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi |
43 | Satyajit Rath | (retired) National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi |
44 | Deeak Kumar | Former Professor, JNU |
45 | Ashis Kumar Nandy | NISER Bhubaneswar |
46 | Alladi Sitaram | Indian Statistical Institute(Retdd.) |
47 | Probal Dasgupta | (Retired from) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
48 | Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya | Visva-bharati University, Santiniketan |
49 | Dr. Raktim Abir | Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. |
50 | Harjinder (Laltu) Singh | |
51 | Madhusudhan Raman | TIFR |
52 | LS Shashidhara | IISER Pune and Ashoka University |
53 | Shanta Laishram | Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi |
54 | Ronak M Soni | Stanford University |
55 | Shivani Upadhyaya | TIFR |
56 | Prashant Kocherlakota | TIFR, Mumbai |
57 | Vaibhav Vaish | IISER Mohali |
58 | Sumi Krishna | Independent scholar |
59 | Saman Habib | CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute |
60 | Prof.Mohan Rao | currently independent researcher |
61 | Enakshi Bhattacharya | IIT Madras |
62 | Mayurika Lahiri | IISER Pune |
63 | Basabendu Barman | IIT Guwahati |
64 | Nirmali Goswami | Tezpur University |
65 | Archana Prasad | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
66 | R. Geeta | Unaffiliated (Retired from Delhi University) |
67 | Reuben George Stephen | ST Microelectronics |
68 | Rahul Siddharthan | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
69 | Surbhi Shrivastava | CEHAT |
70 | Suchitra Mathur | IIT Kanpur |
71 | Koel Das | IISER Kolkata |
72 | Subhashis Banerjee | IIT Delhi |
73 | Sabana Shabnam | NISER, Bhubaneswar |
74 | Ubaid Mushtaq | IIT Kharagpur |
75 | Amit Misra | CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow |
76 | Sk Sazim | HRI, Allahabad |
77 | Bijoy John Mathew | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram |
78 | Aarti Sethi | Harvard University |
79 | Saikat Ghosh | I.I.T.-Kanpur |
80 | Sunando Kr Patra | IIT Guwahati |
81 | Sandeep Rana | NISER Jatni |
82 | Amber Habib | Shiv Nadar University |
83 | Abhiram Kaushik | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
84 | Anuj Mishra | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) |
85 | Dinesh Kumar Abrol | All India Peoples’ Science Network |
86 | Vivek Mehta | Tezpur University |
87 | Alokmay Datta | CSIR-CGCRI |
88 | Simona Sawhney | IIT Delhi |
89 | T R Govindarajan | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
90 | Mahaveer Prasad | ICTS-TIFR |
91 | Samriddhi Sankar Ray | ICTS-TIFR |
92 | Sajad Ahmad Bhat | Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics |
93 | Debaditya Bhattacharya | Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal |
94 | Dr. Anant Phadke | Medico Friend Circle |
95 | Aabhaas Vineet Mallik | ICTS (TIFR) |
96 | Rajat Tandon | University of Hyderabad |
97 | Soumyajit Pramanick | Calcutta University |
98 | Urbashi Satpathi | ICTS |
99 | Vishnu T R | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
100 | Sukanta Bhattacharya | Department of Economics, University of Calcutta |
101 | Priyadarshi Paul | ICTS(TIFR) , Bangalore |
102 | Jagmohan Singh | Shaheed Bhagat Singh Research Committee |
103 | Aditya Vijaykumar | International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
104 | Guruprasad Kar | Indian Statistical Institute |
105 | Farman Ullah | IISER Pune |
106 | Arun Karthik B | IIT Kanpur |
107 | Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay | |
108 | ABHIJITH M S | IIT Hyderabad |
109 | Lopamudra Mukherjee | IIT Guwahati |
110 | Aritra Sinha | Jagiellonian University, Poland |
111 | Proteep Mallik | Azim Premji University |
112 | Surojit Dalui | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
113 | Rajesh Kumble Nayak | IISER Kolkata |
114 | Tanmay Deshpande | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
115 | M Madhava Prasad | The English and Foreign Languages University |
116 | Naresh Dadhich | IUCAA |
117 | Bindusar Sahoo | IISER Trivandrum |
118 | Anwesha Sengupta | IDSK |
119 | Soumik Mukhopadhyay | IIT Kanpur |
120 | Naveen Gaur | University of Delhi |
121 | Ameet Parameswaran | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
122 | Chandranandan Gangopadhyay | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
123 | Udaya Kumar | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
124 | Ramesh Sreekantan | Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore |
125 | B Ananthanarayan | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
126 | Supurna Banerjee | Institute of Development Studies |
127 | Mundur V N Murthy | Retired Professor (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) |
128 | Parasar Mohanty | IIT Kanpur |
129 | Rahul Kashyap | ICTS-TIFR |
130 | Mary E John | New Delhi |
131 | Nivedita Menon | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
132 | Srikanth Sastry | JNCASR, Bengaluru |
133 | Joby Joseph | University of Hyderabad |
134 | Satadal Ganguly | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
135 | Aritra Biswas | IIT, Guwahati |
136 | Alok Laddha | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
137 | Prof.Nagumothu Venugopalrao | Acharya N.G.Ranga Agricultural University,Guntur,AP |
138 | Deb Sankar Banerjee | University College London |
139 | Sandip George | University of Groningen |
140 | Anupama Potluri | University of Hyderabad |
141 | K.Laxminarayana | University of Hyderabad |
142 | Himanshu Badhani | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
143 | Arghya Das | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru |
144 | Prokash Kumar Kundu | ICTS |
145 | Kajari Gupta | Institute of Computer Science, Czech academy of sciences, Prague |
146 | Soumitra Chatterjee | IISER Mohali |
147 | Rashmi Pant | Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University |
148 | Satyaki Mazumder | IISER Kolkata |
149 | Sunil Mukhi | IISER Pune |
150 | Rahul Dandekar | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
151 | Debangshu Mukherjee | IISER Bhopal |
152 | Bharat Tandon | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
153 | Abha Jeurkar | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
154 | Nandita Narain | St.Stephen’s College, Delhi University |
155 | Neetu | IISER Bhopal |
156 | Arindam Bhattacharjee | IISER Pune |
157 | SUBIMAN KUNDU | IIT DELHI |
158 | Suman Dutta | Independent Researcher |
159 | Debadrita | Laser Laboratorium, University of Göttingen, Germany |
160 | Mohammad Imtiyaj Khan | Gauhati University |
161 | Anirban Kar | Delhi School of Economics |
162 | Sachin N | Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi |
163 | Pavan Dharanipragada | Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
164 | Aakanksha Kapoor | IISER-Pune |
165 | Arpita Mitra | IISER Bhopal |
166 | Faraz Ahmed Inam | Aligarh Muslim University |
167 | Shalin Jose | IISER Thiruvananthapuram |
168 | Akash Gulati | Indian Institute of Science |
169 | Nandini Dutta | Delhi University |
170 | Subramanya Hegde | IISER Thiruvananthapuram |
171 | Aradhita Chattopadhyaya | Completed PhD at IISc, Bangalore |
172 | Pranav Kumar | ICTS(Former Visiting Student) |
173 | Anindita Bera | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
174 | Koushik Dutta | Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics |
175 | Ananyo Maitra | Laboratoire Jean Perrin, Sorbonne Universite |
176 | Akavoor Manu | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
177 | Subhankar Chakraborty | Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti |
178 | Disha Bhatia | IACS |
179 | S.Chatterjee | Retired Scientist, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru |
180 | Balasubramaniam K. M. | University of Sussex (former institute)/None (current) |
181 | dhriti nagar | IISER Pune |
182 | Dr. Tanmay Mitra | Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany |
183 | Argha Banerjee | IISER Pune |
184 | Arpan Kundu | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
185 | Dipyaman Pramanik | |
186 | Harish Karnick | Emeritus Fellow, IIT Kanpur |
187 | Taniya Mandal | IISER Bhopal |
188 | Amit Singh | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
189 | Deepankar Basu | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
190 | Debasis Mondal | Centre for Quantum Technologies |
191 | Suman Bala | IUCAA |
192 | Nur Jaman | Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia |
193 | Pinaki Banerjee | IIT Kanpur |
194 | Jyotishman Bhowmick | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
195 | Sugata Ray | |
196 | Debabrata Adak | IUCAA, Pune |
197 | Akshay | IIT Bombay |
198 | ARNAB SETH | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru |
199 | Ankan Paul | |
200 | Vijaya | working with Brick kiln workers in Kanpur (U.P) r |
201 | B. Prasanna Venkatesh | Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar |
202 | Jagannath Sutradhar | Indian Institute of Science |
203 | Arghya Chattopadhyay | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
204 | Utsav Choudhury | Indian Statistical Institute |
205 | Geetha Nambissan | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
206 | Monoj Adhikari | |
207 | Ajit Kumar Mehta | ICTS |
208 | Haris M K | ICTS-TIFR |
209 | Sudipta Sarkar | IIT Gandhinagar |
210 | Nissim Kanekar | National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune |
211 | Sanjib Sabhapandit | RRI, Bangalore |
212 | Souvik Mandal | Harvard University |
213 | Prashant Singh | ICTS-TIFR |
214 | Debdutta Paul | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany |
215 | P K Vijayan | |
216 | SOUMMYADIP BASAK | ICTS-TIFR |
217 | Bharati M | Freelance graphic designer and writer |
218 | Debraj Chakrabarti | Central Michigan University |
219 | Bobby Ezhuthachan | RKMVERI, Howrah |
220 | Apoorv Tiwari | University of Zurich |
221 | Bradraj pandey | University of tennessee , knoxville |
222 | Sandeep Kumar | IIA, Bangalore |
223 | Kaushik Bhattacharya | IIT Kanpur |
224 | Souvik Jana | ICTS-TIFR |
225 | Gourav Tarafdar | Indian Institute of Science |
226 | Dhruv Raina | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
227 | Debashis Ghoshal | |
228 | SOUVIK JANA | ICTS-TIFR |
229 | Bindhulakshmi Pattadath | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
230 | Sarath Sankar Suresh | IST Austria |
231 | Debajyoti Choudhury | University of Delhi |
232 | VenkataLokesh | IISc |
233 | Ayan Banerjee | IISER Kolkata |
234 | Shabbir Shaikh | IUCAA, Pune |
235 | Sweta Dutta | Department of History, Delhi University |
236 | R. Shankar | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
237 | Siddharth Ramachandran | Boston University |
238 | Sanjit Chatterjee | IISc, Bangalore |
239 | Nihav Dhawale | National Centre for Biological Sciences |
240 | Sumati Surya | Raman Research Institute |
241 | Mahuya Datta | Indian Statistical Institute |
242 | Ishani | Delhi University |
243 | Dr. Vasishta Polisetty | AIIMS, New Delhi |
244 | Jesminara Khatun | IISc |
245 | Nirmalya Kajuri | CMI |
246 | Kuntal Ghosh | Indian Statistical Institute |
247 | Subham Rath | |
248 | Atul Chokshi | Indian Institute of Science |
249 | Arudra Burra | IIT Delhi |
250 | Nilotpal Kumar | Azim Premji University |
251 | Piyush Sharda | Australian National University |
252 | Subhojoy Gupta | IISc |
253 | A.P.Balachandran | Syracuse University , Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A. |
254 | P N Bala Subramanian | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
255 | Parameswaran Sankaran | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
256 | Namitha Suresh | Cornell University |
257 | Arati Chokshi | Retired |
258 | Indraneel Dasgupta | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
259 | Debasis Sengupta | Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata |
260 | S Ganga Prasath | ICTS-TIFR Bangalore |
261 | M. V. Ramana | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
262 | Avinash Mandaiya | Cornell University |
263 | Sabiha Majumder | ETH Zurich |
264 | Pramod Pullarkat | Raman Research Institute |
265 | Ameya Gajanan Prabhune | CU Boulder |
266 | Anirban Kundu | University of Calcutta |
267 | Patrick Das Gupta | University of Delhi |
268 | Saumia P. S. | JINR, Dubna |
269 | Sharad Ramanathan | |
270 | Lionel Fernandes | (Rtd.) Dept of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai |
271 | Procheta Mallik | Innovation and Science Promotion Foundation |
272 | Ajaya Kumar Sahoo | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
273 | vandana prasad | |
274 | Dheeraj Kumar | ICTS-TIFR |
275 | Md. Wali Hossain | KNU, South Korea |
276 | Vikas Dubey | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
277 | Akeel Bilgrami | Columbia University |
278 | Avik Chatterjee | |
279 | Aritra Banerjee | Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics |
280 | Vikram Soni | Jamia. Millia Islamia |
281 | Nandini Manjrekar | TISS Mumbai |
282 | Blessy Chinnu Abraham | University of Delhi |
283 | Rahmat Asfiya | Indian Institute of Science |
284 | Rana Barua | Indian Statistical Institute |
285 | Sreeraj T P | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
286 | Meenakshi Saharan | IIT, Kanpur |
287 | sowmya dechamma | University of Hyderabad |
288 | Ujjal Kumar Dey | Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, South Korea |
289 | Shobha Madan | Retired from IIT KANPUR |
290 | Parameswaran Ajith | ICTS-TIFR |
291 | Sumathi Rao | Harish-chandra Research Institute, Allahabad |
292 | Dibyajyoti Chakravarti | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science |
293 | SAHIDUL MONDAL | IACS KOLkATA |
294 | Abdul Haque | D. M. B. High School |
295 | Aritra | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
296 | Sharmila Sreekumar | IIT Bombay |
297 | A.R. Vasavi | Independent Researcher |
298 | Swapan Kumar Majhi | Achhruram Memprial College |
299 | Venu Madhav Govindu | Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |
300 | Saniya Wagh | TIFR |
301 | Sangeeth K | ICTS |
302 | Subhayan Sahu | University of Maryland |
303 | Shrikrishna G. Dani | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Retired) |
304 | Rohit Shah | Indian Institute of Technology |
305 | Debarghya Goswami | St. Joseph’s college, Darjeeling |
306 | Tabish Qureshi | Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia |
307 | Anindya Bhattacharya | University of York |
308 | Dr. G. Vijay | University of Hyderabad |
309 | Gautam Menon | Ashoka University |
310 | Ashesh Dhawale | Harvard University |
311 | Prahladh Harsha | TIFR |
312 | A. P. Shukla | Retd. from IIT, Kanpur |
313 | Saibal Kumar Jana | Shaheed hospital |
314 | Sucheta Koshti | home |
315 | Rajendra Sahai | Professional Engineer, California |
316 | Dr. Shafneed C H | AIIMS |
317 | Saptarshi Biswas | Indian Association For The Cultivation of Science (IACS) |
318 | Vipul Vivek | JNU |
319 | Ahsan | Kfupm |
320 | Gaganjot | IIT Kanpur |
321 | SANCHAYAN GHOSH | Department of Painting, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santniketan. |
322 | Ebil Joseph Schiller | IIT Kanpur |
323 | Parag S | AIIMS delhi |
324 | Dr Sylvia Karpagam | public health doctor and researcher |
325 | Sudeb Ranjan Datta | Indian Institute of Science |
326 | Sridipta | |
327 | Agnivo Sarkar | IIT Gandhinagar |
328 | Sanaa Agarwal | CU Boulder |
329 | Shivan Khullar | University of Toronto |
330 | Laxman Ganapati | Researcher |
331 | Sruthy Das | CU Boulder |
332 | Manav Gaddam | Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
333 | Archisman Ghosh | Leiden University |
334 | Alam Khan | IISc Bangalore |
335 | Dr. Indra BalachNdran | Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany,NY |
336 | Sabyasachi Chakraborty | Florida State University |
337 | Jyoti Punwani | None |
338 | Pradeep Kumar S | IIT Kanpur |
339 | Dwiji Guru | Independent Researcher |
340 | Archismita Misra | Ulm University, Germany |
341 | Priya Jadhav | IIT Bombay |
342 | Shibashis Paul | Indian Association for The Cultivation of Science |
343 | Sriram Ganeshan | City College of New York |
344 | Ramchandra Phawade | Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad |
345 | Bittu K. Rajaraman | Ashoka University |
346 | R Srivatsan | Retired academic |
347 | Rafael Sorkin | Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru |
348 | Vinod Vyasulu | Centre for Budget and Policy Studies |
349 | Sudipto Muhuri | Savitribai Phule Pune University |
350 | V.S.Sunder | Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Retired) |
351 | Amitava Banerjee | University of Maryland, College Park |
352 | Ruchi Chaturvedi | University of Cape Town |
353 | Suresh Govindarajan | IIT Madras |
354 | Gautam Gangopadhyay | University of Calcutta |
355 | Rajdeep Sensarma | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai |
356 | Ranjini Bandyopadhyay | Raman Research Institute |
357 | Dilip Abreu | New York University |
358 | V.K. Tripathi | Ex Professor, IIT Delhi |
359 | Kavitha srinivasan | Solidarity interpreter’s collective |
360 | Collins Assisi | IISER Pune |
361 | Rekha Pappu | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
362 | Narayanan Kurur | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
363 | Ravinder. Banyal | IIA Bangalore |
364 | Inderpal Grewal | Yale University |
365 | Rifat Mir | Anna University |
366 | Dibyendu Das | IIT Bombay |
367 | Sudipta Mukherji | Institute of Physics |
368 | Bhanu Das | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
369 | Soumya Bera | IIT Bombay |
370 | Gurinder Singh | Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR), Mumbai |
371 | Jyoti Lavania | CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru |
372 | Arunkumar A S | French Institute of Pondicherry |
373 | Anirban Dasgupta | IIT Gandhinagar |
374 | Harith Makkapati | BITS Pilani Goa |
375 | Ramprasad Saptharishi | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
376 | S Durga Bhavani | University of Hyderabad |
377 | Srinath Jagannathan | Indian Institute of Management Indore |
378 | Amar Jesani | Independent Consultant & Teacher (Bioethics, Public Health) |
379 | Aditi Dixit | IISER Pune |
380 | Koustav Hazra | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science |
381 | Nishikant Subhedar | Retired from RTM Nagpur University |
382 | Ashok Kumar | Delhi University |
383 | Bidisa Das | |
384 | Prabhu Nott | Indian Institute of Science |
385 | Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor Emeritus | IIT Delhi |
386 | Nomaan | Raman Research Institute |
387 | Pallabi Ghosh | Attakkalari Centre to Movement Arts |
388 | Paritosh Karnatak | University of Basel |
389 | Saurav Islam | IISc |
390 | Krishnendu Sengupta | |
391 | Subhadip Mitra | IIIT Hyderabad |
392 | Nandini Sundar | Delhi University |
393 | Subhro Bhattacharjee | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
394 | Riddhi Shah | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
395 | Imrana Qadeer | Council for Social Development |
396 | Krishnakant Chauhan | NAPM, Gujarat |
397 | Saba Hasan | artist |
398 | Dr. Sylvia Karpagam | |
399 | B.Shobha | University of Hyderabad |
400 | Achin Chakraborty | Institute of Development Studies Kolkata |
401 | Supratim Sengupta | IISER Kolkata |
402 | Pradipta Bandyopadhyay | Indian Statistical Institute |
403 | Swarnajit Chatterjee | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science |
404 | Mintu Karmakar | IACS |
405 | Oindrila Deb | University of Basel |
406 | Nijil Lal C. K. | Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad |
407 | K. G. Arun | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
408 | Rajni Palriwala | University of Delhi |
409 | Sudeshna Sen | University College Dublin |
410 | Jyotirmoy | Indian Institute of Science |
411 | Raghunath Chelakkot | IIT Bombay |
412 | Amitava Datta | INSA senior Scientist, Dept of Physics, Univ. of Calcutta |
413 | Krishnendu | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
414 | Sanjna | Indian Institute of Science |
415 | Ananya Mandal | IISc |
416 | V Noel Aiyar | |
417 | SRI VAMSI MATTA | IISc |
418 | Akif M. | University of Hyderabad |
419 | Bala Iyer | ICTS-TIFR |
420 | Fazley Ahmad | Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. |
421 | Nandita DasGupta | IIT Madras |
422 | Anna Oommen | Gudalur Adivasi Hospital |
423 | Anshuman Singh | University of Delhi |
424 | Sourav Biswas | IIT Kanpur |
425 | Saumav Kapoor | ICTS |
426 | Biplab Ganguli | NIT Rourkela |
427 | Shaswati Mazumdar | Retired from Delhi University |
428 | Vinod John | IISc |
429 | Peggy Mohan | |
430 | Shyista Khan | University of Delhi |
431 | Chandramouli Chowdhury | ICTS |
432 | Anirban Mandal | IISER Pune |
433 | Madhav Nori | University of Chicago |
434 | Mohammad Zahid | Retd.PhysicsProf., Jamia Millia Islamia |
435 | Varuni P | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
436 | Sridhar Narayanan | |
437 | Kesavan PS | TIFR Hyderabad |
438 | Dattaraj Dhuri | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
439 | Rakesh Ankit | Loughborough University |
440 | Kripa G | APU, Bangalore |
441 | Rajendran Narayanan | Azim Premji University |
442 | Suratno Basu | Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
443 | D C V Mallik | Indian Institute of Astrophysics |
444 | Madhukar S | Raman Research Institute |
445 | Niruj Mohan | ex-NCRA, TIFR |
446 | Aradhana Sharma | Wesleyan University |
447 | r ramanujam | Institute of mathematical sciences, chennai |
448 | Shiv Sethi | Raman Research Institute |
449 | Bhavesh Khamesra | Georgia Institute of Technology |
450 | Yogeshwar Prasad | HRI |
451 | Krishna Hanumanthu | Chennai Mathematical Institute |
452 | Rupal Oza | |
453 | G Patel | University of Virginia |
454 | Soumya Das | Indian institute of science |
455 | Chayanika Shah | K J Somaiya College of Science and Commerce Mumbai |
456 | V.Subashri | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
457 | Ratan Sarkar | IISc Bangalore |
458 | Soumi Ghosh | Indian Institute of Science |
459 | Reeteka sud | |
460 | Debasmita Mondal | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) |
461 | Subhaditya Bhattacharya | IIT Guwahati |
462 | Dhruba J Saikia | NCRA-TIFR (superannuated) and IUCAA |
463 | Manjari Gupta | HRI, Allahabad |
464 | Arjo Dasgupta | IACS |
465 | Rusa Mandal | Universität Siegen |
466 | Shraddha | Hbcse |
467 | Subhodeep Bhattacharya | inStem, NCBS, Bangalore |
468 | Anuradha Samajdar | Nikhef, Netherlands |
469 | Shrobana Ghosh | Cardiff University |
470 | Akshay | University of Mississippi |
471 | Ananya Tiwari | UIUC |
472 | Waseem Nabi | Government Medical College, Srinagar |
473 | Amit Roy | IISc |
474 | Dilip Mookherjee | Boston University |
475 | Kavita Ramanan | Brown University |
476 | Saurav Holme Choudhury | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
477 | Amlan Chakraborty | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
478 | Souradeep Sengupta | Gurucharan College, Silchar |
479 | Vishal Baibhav | Johns Hopkins University |
480 | Angshuman Chatterjee | Heritage Institute of Hotel & Tourism |
481 | Pragya Srivastava | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
482 | Sudeepan Datta | Indian Institute of Science |
483 | Apurba Sarkar | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science |
484 | Garima C Nagar | SUNY at Binghamton |
485 | Sagnik Chakraborty | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
486 | M A Sofi | Central University of Kashmir |
487 | Dr. Prashanth N S | Institute of Public Health Bangalore |
488 | Sreekrishna V R | NCBS |
489 | Arup Kumar Sen | |
490 | Rajat Subhra Hazra | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
491 | Udvas Das | Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore |
492 | Sashwat Tanay | University of Mississippi |
493 | Sharmistha M. | IIT Gandhinagar |
494 | Aditi Dudeja | Rutgers University |
495 | Kishor Salunkhe | TIFR, Mumbai |
496 | Meghna Bhattacharya | University of Mississippi |
497 | Anandi Mani | University of Oxford |
498 | Sharun Mukand | University of Warwick |
499 | Khalid Khan | Charles Darwin University |
500 | Ravi Mazumdar | University of Waterloo |
501 | Karen Gabriel | St. Stephen’s College |
502 | Sudipta Bandyopadhyay | University of Calcutta |
503 | Zoya | Caltech |
504 | Sumit Kumar Birwa | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |
Latest Situation of IoK reported in media on September 24, 2019:
According to their data collection from Indian Occupied Kashmir, all small and major sectors of life including business and commerce, education, transport, horticulture and tourism in IOK, particularly the Valley, are virtually defunct with unprecedented communications blockade adding more to the prevailing uncertainty.
Transport sector is among the one that has been affected the worst as 50,000 vehicles stand grounded since 5th of August.
The tourism front has also taken a hit due to the clampdown. All hotels and houseboats are almost empty and as such are running in huge losses.
Amid the lockdown, cordon and search operations are being conducted at various places in IOK with the aim to trace the pro-freedom voices and silence them. In a series of such latest operations in different areas of Kishtwar district, Indian forces arrested at least 3 youth.
Indian officials confirmed that as many as 343 politicians, business leaders and young boys have been booked under the black law, PSA and shifted to jails in India’s UP and Haryana states since the revocation of the special status. However, it is believed that the number of actual people imprisoned outside jails under the PSA is far more than the one stated by the officials.
Indian government has decided to reopen around 50,000 temples, which were reportedly closed down over the years in IOJ&K. In this regard, Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy has said that the government has set up a committee to survey the temples closed or destroyed and idols defaced.
Senior Cong leader Ghulam Nabi Azad speaking to reporters in Jammu, today, termed the situation in the Kashmir valley as very bad. He also said there is no mark of freedom of speech in J&K.