We stand in complete solidarity with the students of IIT Kanpur who marched on 17th December against the police violence inflicted upon protesting students of AMU, JMI and other universities against CAA and NRC.
According to the student organisers, they took admin permission for the march on the previous day itself but when they reached the assembly point, they were told by the admin that they would not be allowed to march because of imposition of 144 in Kanpur. Around 300 people, students and faculty, gathered to march. There were 5-10 people, students and faculty, who were opposing the march. When the students demanded a written office order they were shown a three weeks old office order. They also found that the clauses laid down by the order did not apply to them. They therefore decided to proceed with the march, which was concluded peacefully and without any untoward incidents. A statement of solidarity was released after the march.
Before the start of the march, Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s famous Hum Dekhenge was read out, which has become a controversy now. People who opposed the march later complained to the Director about that poem. An article titled ‘When All Idols Will Be Removed…Only Allah’s Name Will Remain’: Jamia Solidarity Event At IIT Kanpur Sparks Row appeared in Swarajya magazine on 21st December. The article detailed the contents of the complaint and argued that the march was communal. On the same day, the students’ magazine, Vox Populi, carried a response to the article in Swarajya magazine. This article explained the sequence of the events of 17th December and explained how the poem has to be understood within its context and how the Swarajya article is an attempt to communalise the gathering.
After the article from Vox, on the same day within hours, there was a tweet from the institute Director saying that no permission was granted to the march and a high level committee had been constituted to investigate and take disciplinary action.
The complaint and the response from the Director would have, understandably, created a lot of pressure on students to withdraw the Students’ Gymkhana statement and the Vox article.
We feel that the threat of high-level committee and disciplinary action is a clear attempt to stifle the voice of the students of IIT Kanpur. As citizens of this country, the students have every right to peacefully express their opinions on any subject.
At this moment we feel that it is our duty to express our solidarity with the students of IIT Kanpur who are being threatened for expressing their opinions and for standing in solidarity with their fellow students from other universities.
We, the undersigned, believe that the IITK administration should encourage dialogue and abandon the idea of any disciplinary action which amounts to intimidation of students.
Signatories
Full Name | Current Affiliation | Affiliation with IIT Kanpur (Students/Staff/Faculty/Alumni/Community member/Others) |
Amit Singh | IIT Bombay | Alumnus |
Himanshu Srivastava | Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education | Alumnus |
GrishmaUdani | Rinema | Alumni |
IshaSood | Against CAA | Alumni |
vishalvivekjacob | Alumni | Alumni |
Sakthivel | Post Doc fellow | Alumni |
Rajendra Sahai | Retired | Graduate of 1966, Alumni |
Rajendra Sahai | Professional Engineer, Retired | Alumni, 1966 graduation |
Johnson | Alumni | Alumni |
Johnson | Alumni | Alumni |
Sephora Jose | Research scholar, IITK | Student |
Irfan Qayoom | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Paul Mathew | Assistant Professor, Christ University, Bangalore | Alumni |
Kuver Sinha | University of Oklahoma | Alumnus |
binoy | Alumni | |
Vikas Dubey | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Aravind Muthusamy | Alumni | Alumni |
Komal Chauhan | Research scholar | Student |
Vaishali Gite | NO | |
Reuben | student | |
Meenakshi Saharan | Student | |
Shiv Kumar Yadav | Tiss, | Student |
Mohd Usman | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Mohammad Anas | Student | |
Shadab Alam | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Izhar Hussain Khan | PhD scholar | Student |
Ahmed Sameer | Student of Prof.Braj Bhushan | |
Nisha Sihag | Research scholar | Student |
Faisal Anwar | Tata motors | Alumni |
Angad Chandhok | Alumni | |
Arnab Sarkar | Student | Student |
PrawalGangwar | Fortanix | Alumni |
KaameshSingam | PhD in HSS, IIT Kanpur | Student |
Aditi Saraswat | Student | |
Abhishek Savarnya | Student | |
Sushil Handa | Consulting Engineer | Graduate of 1966 Batch B. tech. |
Ali Asad | IITK | Project staff |
Faisal Anwar | Tata motors | Alumni |
Aditya Jain | Working at Tata Motors Ltd. Pune | Alumnus |
Qazi Sarah Rasheed | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Angana Das | PhD student | Student |
Rahul Bera | PhD student, ETH Zürich | Alumni |
Sahil Saharan | Student | Nil |
Sahil Singh | Job | Alumni |
Rakesh Gamare | Other | |
MR. VIJAYANAND SHARMA | Chairman, Federation of Retired SAIL Employees | Alumni |
Rubia Hassan | Student | |
Suvrat Raju | International Centre for Theoretical Sciences | Outside, Academic |
Taha Sheikh | University of Toronto | Alumni |
Ansari Abdullah | PhD Scholar | Alumni 2018 Batch |
Vivek Kumar Mehta | Alumni | |
MAHFUZ RAHMAN ANSARI | STUDENT AT IITK | STUDENT |
Dhruv Sihag | BS | Student |
MUJEEBU RAHMAN K C | Phd student | Student |
Vineet Singh | Delhi School of Social Work, University of Delhi | Friend with a PhD scholar in Sociology |
Anshikha Adhikari | PhD student, IIT Kanpur | Student |
Jeeshan Ahmed | MTECH Y16 passed out | MTECH Y16 |
Anjoom | Student | Student |
Oviya Mohan | IIT KANPUR | Student |
Pritha Sarkar | PhD student | Student |
Aditya Prakash Morey | Alumni | |
Aastha Sharma | IIT-K | Yes |
Anirban Majumder | Engineer | Alumni |
Ashabari Majumdar | University of Notre Dame | Student |
Deepshikha Ola | Alumni | |
Arya AlphonsaBoban | Alumni | |
Hardip Grewal | Editor, Cambridge University Press | Other |
Shubham Gupta | ClearTax | Alumni |
Nirmali Goswami | Tezpur University | PhD student 2004 batch |
Sayan malas | Others | |
Shreya Agrawal | Project Employee | |
Debojyoti Das | Research Student | Others |
Rajorshi Ray | P.hD. Scholar | Student |
Niti Shekhar | PhD | Student |
Minhaj Nizami | Alumni | |
Prem Surya | Students | |
Deepak Kumar Behera | University of Arizona | Alumni |
ApratyasitaTripathy | PhD(Sociology) | Student |
Kanu Priya | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Rishabh Gupta | Alumni | |
Satyaki Bhattacharya | ISI, Kolkata | Students |
Arati Banerjee | PanihatiMahavidyalaya | Not affiliated |
Anurag Prabhakar | Alumnus, 2019, EE Dual Degree | |
SougataMardanya | Student | |
Samarth Bansal | Journalist | Alumni, UG Y11 |
Monika Mahto | Alumni, Y15 | |
shiwashree | others | others |
Nandini Dhar | OP Jindal Global University | Others |
Srijan R Shetty | Alumni | |
Iffat Siddiqui | Kellogg School of Management | Alumni |
Anurag Vaishnav | Alumni | |
Chirag Gupta | Carnegie Mellon University | Alumni |
Triya Bhattacharya | Alumnus | |
Uzair Ahmed | student | |
Aman Pandya | Alumni | Alumni |
Dipanjan Mukherjee | Others | |
HUSNA MOAB | Students | |
Jaskaran Singh | Student at IIT Kanpur | Student |
RafatJaah | Alumni | |
ManzurAlam | IIT KANPUR | Student |
Partha De | IIT Madras | Others |
Mohammad Amir | Student | Student |
Mohammad Amir | Student | Student |
Faisal Raghib | IIT Kanpur | Alumni |
Faraz Ahmad Khan | Student | Student |
Ruchika Jainp | Student | |
Nancy goyal | Student | |
Nancy goyal | Student | |
Dheeraj Agarwal | Software professional | Alumni |
Beauty Das | teacher | others |
Humera Siddiqui | PhD | Alumni |
Ishank Modi | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Jeenu Thomas | IITK alum (2011-2016) | Alumni |
Kundan Kumar | Alumni | Alumni |
Parth Vaswani | Alumni | |
Usama Ghayas Syed | Student | Student |
SarveshKoyande | Dr. Reddy’s | Alumni |
Mohdamir | Student | Others |
Abdul Gafoor | Research Scholar | Others |
Abhay Kumar | Alumni | |
Sarbojit Roy | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Student |
Deepa Sahchari | Alumnus | |
Suchitra Mathur | IIT Kanpur | Faculty |
Shoebusmani | ex-student | alumni |
Vaibhav Vaish | Alumni | |
Santanu Poddar | MSc Chemistry | Student |
Faisal Jaah | Student | |
Joy Das Bairagya | Student | Student |
Kevin Jose | University of Southampton | Alumni |
Anurag Jain | Others | |
Piyali Roy | University of Calcutta | Students |
Nishant | Alumnus | |
Ritam Dutta | No | |
Rohan Sharma | Student at University of British Columbia | Alumni |
Siddharth Ramachandran | Boston University | Alumnus |
Subrata Das | Publisher | Publisher |
Abhilash Mittal | Alumnus | |
Prabir Saha | Student | Student |
Rishikesh | Alumni | |
Divya Singh | IIT Kanpur | Student |
IpshitaSaha | Student | Others |
SubhasisSaha | Yes. | |
Dharmendra Kumar Das | Program facilitator, HSRLM | Community member |
Agam Prakash Shukla | Member, CF, IITK | Retd. IITK Employee |
Arun Karthik B. | Alumni 2012 | |
JAVED AKHTER MONDAL | Student | Student |
SUPROTIM SAHA | M. Sc Physics 2nd Year | Student |
GOUTAM MANNA | IIT Kanpur | Student |
Varun Pandit | Senior Research Analyst | Alumni |
Vijaya | Jagriti Bal Vikas Samiti, Kanpur | was a resident of IITK |
Asit Pal | Masters in science | Student |
Manoranjan | Student | |
Sudhir Sharma | Working at UN | Alumni |
Priya Iyer | IISc | Alumni |
Mohammad Owais | Student | |
Amman Madan | Azim Premji University | Ex-Faculty |
Sarifulmolla | MSc 2nd yr | Students |
Ashok Gupta | Ohio University | Alumnus |
Aftab Hossain Khan | Student | Others |
Vijaya | Jagriti Bal Vikas Samiti, Kanpur | Was a resident of I I T k |
SusantaBhunia | Student | |
Sanchari Pal | IIT Kanpur | PhD student |
Meesam Jafri | Student | Student |
Aman Sharma | IIT kanpur | Student |
Dheeraj Singh | Alumni | |
Koustuv Ray | Alumni | |
Jyoti Yadav | Student | Student |
Madhusree Sarkar | IIT Kharagpur | PhD Student |
Rohit tyagi | Student | Student |
Anurag Sahay | PhD candidate, University of Rochester | Alumni (BS-MS dual degree/MTH/Y11) |
Pritam Palit | Research Scholar | Alumni |
Shrestha Biswas | Student | Student |
Ayan Kumar Nai | IIT KANPUR | Students |
Habib ali | PhD | Students |
Jyotshna Bali | Senior Research Associate | Alumni / Staff |
Sandeep SHUKLA | IIT Kanpur | Faculty |
MD SAMIULLAH ANSARI | IIT KANPUR | Student |
Md Waseem Ahmad | Assistant professor, NITK | Alumni |
Aqeel A. Malani | Student | Student |
TABISH HAQUE | Student | |
Ayan Kumar Nai | IIT KANPUR | Students |
Ayush Mukherjee | Alumni | |
Meesam Jafri | IIT Kanpur | Students |
MD HASHIR HASHMI | Student | Student |
Debojit Chanda | M.Sc. (Physics) at IITK | Student |
Mohammad AfrozAlam | Alumni | |
Manish Mishra | IISER Pune | Alumni |
Abhaya Agarwal | Alumni | |
Manish Kumar Gautam | Alumnus | |
Chaitanya Jee Srivastava | Alumni | Alumni |
Kamlesh Bharodiya | Alumnus | |
RidhFiza | 10+1 studying | They are our counterpart |
Priyanka Chakraborty | Msc chemistry | Others |
Dhunirajchettri | Student | Student |
Vishal | Alumni |
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