The Bihar police has closed the FIR against the 49 respected citizens who wrote a letter to Prime Minister Modi. The letter expressed their concern about growing instances of mob lynching, continuing caste inequalities, and the misuse of religion. The FIR was dropped subsequent to an order from the Muzaffar SSP, citing lack of substance in the allegations against the signatories of the letter.
We can see this small victory as ours. It helps us remember what we can do, even in dark times, when people’s voices come together.
Over the last few days, individuals and groups across the country have registered their protest against the FIR and its allegations, and endorsed the open letter to the PM. Students have sent a deluge of letters to the PM; there have been protests by cultural organisations. More than 1500 individuals from different parts of the country have signed statements to condemn the harassment of citizens who ask questions about violence, injustice and inequality in our country. They have registered their outrage at the targeting of people on the basis of religion and caste.
Our voices – of reason, outrage, of solidarity with our fellow citizens – were heard this time. But this is only the beginning. Yes, we need to take on the misuse of courts to harass citizens. Yes, we need to take on the use of the colonial law of sedition in this, the 150th year of Gandhi’s birth. And yes, we need to insist on freedom of expression.
But most of all, we need to find new ways of challenging attacks on minorities, of challenging caste inequality. We need to move forward, with full strength, against exclusionary politics.
An FIR has been lodged against forty-nine of our colleagues in the cultural community, simply because they performed their duty as respected members of civil society. They wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister, expressing concern about mob lynching in our country.
Can this be called an act of sedition? Or is harassment by misusing the courts a ploy to silence citizens’ voices?
All of us, as members of the Indian cultural community, as citizens of conscience, condemn such harassment. We do more: we endorse every word of the letter our colleagues wrote to the Prime Minister. This is why we share their letter here once again, and appeal to the cultural, academic and legal communities to do the same. This is why more of us will speak every day. Against mob lynching. Against the silencing of people’s voices. Against the misuse of courts to harass citizens.
Text of open letter written to Prime Minister Modi on 23 July 2019 by 49 eminent citizens, including Aparna Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Anurag Kashyap, Ashis Nandy and Ramachandra Guha
We, as peace loving and proud Indians, are deeply concerned about a number of tragic events that have been happening in recent times in our beloved country.
Our Constitution describes India as a secular socialist democratic republic where citizens of all religions, ethnicities, gender and castes are equal. Hence, to ensure that every citizen enjoys the rights given to her/him by the Constitution, our submission is:
1. The lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately. We were shocked to learn from the NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) reports that there have been no less than 840 instances of atrocities against Dalits in the year 2016, and a definite decline in the percentage of convictions.
Further, 254 religious identity-based hate crimes were reported between January 1, 2009, and October 29, 2018, where at least 91 persons were killed and 579 were injured (FactChecker.in database, October 30, 2018). The Citizen’s Religious Hate-Crime Watch recorded that Muslims, (14% of India’s population) were the victims in 62% for cases, and Christians (2% of the population), in 14% cases. About 90% of these attacks were reported after May 2014, when your Government assumed power nationally.
You have criticized such lynchings in Parliament Mr. Prime Minister, but that is not enough! What action has actually been taken against the perpetrators? We strongly feel that such offences should be declared non-bailable, and that exemplary punishment should be meted out swiftly and surely. If life imprisonment without parole can be the sentence in cases of murder, why not for lynchings, which are even more heinous? No citizen should have to live in fear in his/her own country!
Regrettably “Jai Sri Ram” has become a provocative ‘war-cry’ today that leads to law and order problems, and many lynchings take place in its name. It is shocking to see so much violence perpetrated in the name of religion! These are not the Middle Ages! The name of Ram is sacred to many in the majority community of India. As the highest Executive of this country, you must put a stop to the name of Ram being defiled in this manner.
2. There is no democracy without dissent. People should not be branded ‘anti-national’ or ‘urban Naxal’ and incarcerated because of dissent against the Government. Article 19 of the Constitution of India protects freedom of speech and expression of which dissent is an integral part.
Criticising the ruling party does not imply criticising the nation. No ruling party is synonymous with the country where it is in power. It is only one of the political parties of that country. Hence anti-government stands cannot be equated with anti-national sentiments. An open environment where dissent is not crushed, only makes for a stronger nation.
We hope our suggestions will be taken in the spirit that they are meant – as Indians genuinely concerned with, and anxious about, the fate of our nation.
Read the statement in Nyishi here.
Read the statement in Punjabi here.
Read the statement in Telugu here.
Read the statement in Kannada here.Â
Read the statement in Marathi here.
Read the statement in Gujarati here.
Read the statement in Bengali here.
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| 54 | Amrit Rajkhowa | 384 | Kokila Bhattacharya | 714 | Sachin N |
| 55 | Amrita Pande | 385 | Komita Dhanda | 715 | Sadia Wahidi |
| 56 | Anand K Sahay | 386 | Kopparthy Venkata Ramana Murthy | 716 | Saleem Peeradina |
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| 59 | Anand Swarup Verma | 389 | KP Ramanunni | 719 | Salman |
| 60 | Anand Teltumbde | 390 | KP Sasi | 720 | Sambuddha Bisi |
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| 64 | Anil Bhatti | 394 | Kristine Michael | 724 | Samir Khurana |
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| 69 | Anirban Sarkar | 399 | Kumkum Roy | 729 | Sandhya Srinivasan |
| 70 | Anirudh Nair | 400 | Kunal Chattopadhyay | 730 | Sandhya Taksale |
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| 73 | Anita Dighe | 403 | KY Ratnam | 733 | Sangita Gairola |
| 74 | Anita Dube | 404 | L Ramdas | 734 | Sanjay Joshi |
| 75 | Anita Rampal | 405 | Lalit Vachani | 735 | Sanjay Kumar Sinha |
| 76 | Anita Rampal | 406 | Lalita Ramdas | 736 | Sanjay Madhav |
| 77 | Anita Vachharajani | 407 | Lara Jaydha | 737 | Sanjeev Kumar |
| 78 | Anitha Thampi | 408 | Lata Singh | 738 | Sanjna Kapoor |
| 79 | Anjali Deshpande | 409 | Lavanya | 739 | Sanjoop KP |
| 80 | Anjali Mathur | 410 | Laxmi Murthy | 740 | Sanjukta Wagh |
| 81 | Anjali Monteiro | 411 | Laxminarayan Ramdas | 741 | Sankar Varma |
| 82 | Anjali Purohit | 412 | Leela Jacinto | 742 | Santanu Mandal |
| 83 | Anju Dodiya | 413 | Lillete Dubey | 743 | Santhi Vakulabharanam |
| 84 | Ankita Srivastava | 414 | Lima Kanungo | 744 | Santosh Jha |
| 85 | Anmol Vellani | 415 | Lubna Sarwath | 745 | Sara Rai |
| 86 | Anna Dani | 416 | M Mohanty | 746 | Saroop Dhruv |
| 87 | Annie Koshi | 417 | M Sathyam | 747 | Saswati Sengupta |
| 88 | Anshul Sharma | 418 | MA Baby | 748 | Sathya S |
| 89 | Antara Dev Sen | 419 | Maansi Shah | 749 | Satish Chand Abbi |
| 90 | Antony Thomas | 420 | Madan Lal Hind | 750 | Satyajit Rath |
| 91 | Anu Bal | 421 | Madhavi Menon | 751 | Satyam Srivastava |
| 92 | Anubhuti Maurya | 422 | Madhu Bhaduri | 752 | Satyen kumar |
| 93 | Anuja Ghosalkar | 423 | Madhuchhanda Karlekar | 753 | Satyendra Kumar |
| 94 | Anupam Singh | 424 | Madhusree Dutta | 754 | Saumya Baijal |
| 95 | Anupama Potluri | 425 | Mahendra Ved | 755 | Saumya Chakrabarti |
| 96 | Anupama Singh | 426 | Mahesh Darpan | 756 | Saumyajit Bhattacharya |
| 97 | Anupama Srinivasan | 427 | Mahesh Kumar | 757 | Saurabh Bajpai |
| 98 | Anuradha Chenoy | 428 | Maimoona Mollah | 758 | Saurabh Naruka |
| 99 | Anuradha Kumar | 429 | Makarand Sathe | 759 | Savita Tripathy |
| 100 | Anuradha Lobo | 430 | Mala Dayal | 760 | Savithri Rajeevan |
| 101 | Anurupa Roy | 431 | Malasree Dasgupta | 761 | Savithri Singh |
| 102 | Anvita Abbi | 432 | Mallika Sarabhai | 762 | Sebastian Joseph |
| 103 | Aparna Andhare | 433 | Mallika Taneja | 763 | Seema Sangsar |
| 104 | Apoorva CA | 434 | Manas Ghosh | 764 | Seetharama B |
| 105 | Apurba Baruah | 435 | Manasi | 765 | Sehba Farooqui |
| 106 | Arati Luthra Pinto | 436 | Mangad Rathnakaran | 766 | Sethumadhavan |
| 107 | Archana Hande | 437 | Mangalesh Dabral | 767 | SG Vasudev |
| 108 | Archana Prasad | 438 | Manisha Chaudhry | 768 | Shabari Rao |
| 109 | Archana Shah | 439 | Manishi Jani | 769 | Shabnam Hashmi |
| 110 | Arijit Sen | 440 | Manju Kapur | 770 | Shadab Bano |
| 111 | Arjumand Ara | 441 | Manmohan | 771 | Shafey Kidwai |
| 112 | Arpita Das | 442 | Manoj Kumar Singh | 772 | Shah Alam Khan |
| 113 | Arshia Sattar | 443 | Manoj Sharma | 773 | Shai Heredia |
| 114 | Arun Dev | 444 | Manorama Sharma | 774 | Shai Heredia |
| 115 | Arundhati Dhuru | 445 | Mansi Bhatt | 775 | Shaibani Azam |
| 116 | Arundhati Ghosh | 446 | Manthan Samayiki | 776 | Shailendra Asthana |
| 117 | Arundhati Roy | 447 | Manu Chakravarthy N | 777 | Shaili Sathyu |
| 118 | Arunima G | 448 | Maria Couto | 778 | Shakun Doundiyakhed |
| 119 | Arunima Sehgal | 449 | Mariam Fatima | 779 | Shalinee Tripathi |
| 120 | Arunkumar HG | 450 | Masaud Akhtar | 780 | Shambhu Yadav |
| 121 | Arya Rajam | 451 | Maya Joshi | 781 | Shamik Sen Gupta |
| 122 | Asghar Wajahat | 452 | Maya Pandit | 782 | Shamim Ahmed |
| 123 | Asha Hans | 453 | Maya Rao | 783 | Shampa Roy |
| 124 | Asha Mishra | 454 | Meena Gupta | 784 | Shamsul Islam |
| 125 | Ashish Dasgupta | 455 | Meena Gupta | 785 | Shamya Dasgupta |
| 126 | Ashlin Mathew | 456 | Meera Devidayal | 786 | Shamya Dasgupta |
| 127 | Ashok Bhaumik | 457 | Megha Pansare | 787 | Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri |
| 128 | Ashok Bhowmik | 458 | Mehak Talwar | 788 | Shantha Sinha |
| 129 | Ashok Chaudhary | 459 | Menaka Rodriguez | 789 | Sharad Raj |
| 130 | Ashok Rao | 460 | Mercy Kappen | 790 | Sharada Sathe |
| 131 | Ashok Salian | 461 | Mercy Margaret | 791 | Sharda Ugra |
| 132 | Ashok Tewari | 462 | Merlin Moli | 792 | Sharifa Vijaliwala |
| 133 | Ashok Vajpeyi | 463 | MG Husain | 793 | Sharmila Joshi |
| 134 | Ashoke Ranjan Thakur | 464 | Minakshi Rajdev | 794 | Shashi Deshpande |
| 135 | Ashutosh Kumar | 465 | Mithileshwar | 795 | Shaswati Mazumdar |
| 136 | Aslam Shibli | 466 | MMP Singh | 796 | Shaveta Sharma |
| 137 | Asma Menon | 467 | Mohammad Faheem | 797 | Shavez Waris |
| 138 | Astad Deboo | 468 | Mohan Rao | 798 | Sheeba Chadha |
| 139 | Atamjit Singh | 469 | Mohd Zubair Idrisi | 799 | Sheo Dutt |
| 140 | Atul Dodiya | 470 | Mohini Gulrajani | 800 | Sherna Dastur |
| 141 | Atul Gurtu | 471 | Moinak Biswas | 801 | Sherna Gandhy |
| 142 | Atul Kumar | 472 | Moloyashree Hashmi | 802 | Shernaz Vakil |
| 143 | Atul Pethe | 473 | Moolchandra Gautam | 803 | Shireen Jungalwala |
| 144 | Atul Singh | 474 | Moses Suchith | 804 | Shirish Parab |
| 145 | Atul Sood | 475 | MP Pratheesh | 805 | Shiv Shankar Mukherjee |
| 146 | Audrey Truschke | 476 | Mridula Garg | 806 | Shivaraama Padikkal |
| 147 | Avalokita Dutt | 477 | Mridula Koshy | 807 | Shobha Naresh |
| 148 | Avijit Dutt | 478 | Mridula Mukherjee | 808 | Shobha Singh |
| 149 | Avinash Kumar | 479 | Mridula Shankar | 809 | Shobhit Mahajan |
| 150 | Awadhesh | 480 | Mrinal | 810 | Shobhna Jain |
| 151 | Awadhesh Kumar Misra | 481 | Mrityunjay | 811 | Shoma A Chatterjji |
| 152 | Ayesha Kidwai | 482 | Mrityunjay | 812 | Shreya Subrahmanyam |
| 153 | Ayushya Kaul | 483 | MS Murali Krishna | 813 | Shreyasi Dastidar |
| 154 | B Rajeevan | 484 | MS Prakash Babu | 814 | Shripad Bhat |
| 155 | Badri Raina | 485 | MS Sriram | 815 | Shruti Bijnoria |
| 156 | Bajrang Bihari | 486 | Mukul Priyadarshini | 816 | Shruti Mittal |
| 157 | Bali singh | 487 | Mukunda Rao | 817 | Shubha |
| 158 | Balvant Kaur | 488 | Musharraf Ali | 818 | Shukla Sawant |
| 159 | Barun Prabhat | 489 | MV Narayanan | 819 | Siddharth |
| 160 | Basavaraj Urs | 490 | Mz Khan | 820 | Sitanath Lahkar |
| 161 | Basheer Thettan | 491 | N S Goswami | 821 | SK Das |
| 162 | Batti Lal Bairwa | 492 | Nabaneeta Dev Sen | 822 | SK Pande |
| 163 | Batul Mukhtiar | 493 | Nadeem Rezavi | 823 | Smriti Kapoor |
| 164 | BB Choudhary | 494 | Naina Dayal | 824 | Sobha Rani |
| 165 | Bharat Singh Meena | 495 | Najama Rahmani | 825 | Sohail Hashmi |
| 166 | Bharat Tiwari | 496 | Nalin Ranjan Singh | 826 | Somashekarappa Hiriyur Mallaiah |
| 167 | Bharati Jagannathan | 497 | Namita Singh | 827 | Sonal Kellogg |
| 168 | Bhasha Singh | 498 | Namrata Sen | 828 | Sonia Jabbar |
| 169 | Bhaskar Chattopadhyay | 499 | Nancy Adajania | 829 | Sonia Sarkar |
| 170 | Bijayini Satpathy | 500 | Nand Bhardwaj | 830 | Souparna Lahiri |
| 171 | Bina Agarwal | 501 | Nandana Reddy | 831 | Souradeep Roy |
| 172 | Bina Paul | 502 | Nandini Rao | 832 | SP Ambrose |
| 173 | Bodhisatv | 503 | Nandita Basu | 833 | Sreedhara Murthy |
| 174 | Bose Krishnamachari | 504 | Nandita Narain | 834 | Sreyashi Dastidar |
| 175 | Bratati Pande | 505 | Nandita Rao | 835 | Srimanjari Ballal |
| 176 | Brij Kumar Pandey | 506 | Narain Bairath | 836 | Srinivas Kakkilaya |
| 177 | Brij Tankha | 507 | Narbhinder | 837 | Sriram MS |
| 178 | BRP Bhaskar | 508 | Naresh Dadhich | 838 | Sriram Srinivasan |
| 179 | BS Prakash | 509 | Naresh Prerna | 839 | Subba Ghosh |
| 180 | Carol Rao | 510 | Naresh Saxena | 840 | Subhadra Channa |
| 181 | CG Manjula | 511 | Naseeruddin Shah | 841 | Subhangini Thorat |
| 182 | Chaman Lal | 512 | Nataraj Honnavalli | 842 | Subhash Malik |
| 183 | Chanchal Chauhan | 513 | Natasha Badhwar | 843 | Subhasini Ali |
| 184 | Chandra Dev Ola | 514 | Navjot Altaf | 844 | Subhasis Bandyopadhyay |
| 185 | Chandrakant Patil | 515 | Navnita Chadha Behera | 845 | Subhro Bandopadhyay |
| 186 | Chandranath Ray | 516 | Navrekha Sharma | 846 | Subir Dey |
| 187 | Chandrashekhar Chaurasia | 517 | Navsharan Singh | 847 | Subodh Bedre |
| 188 | Chandrashekhar Phansalkar | 518 | Nayana Pai | 848 | Subodh Varma |
| 189 | Chandrika Parmar | 519 | Nayantara Sahgal | 849 | Sucheta Mahajan |
| 190 | Chhaya Datar | 520 | Nazim Shekh | 850 | Suchorita Chattopadhyay |
| 191 | Chinki Sinha | 521 | Neel Chaudhuri | 851 | Sudarshan Shetty |
| 192 | Civic Chandran | 522 | Neelam Gupta | 852 | Sudeshna Banerjee |
| 193 | CK Meena | 523 | Neelam Jeena | 853 | Sudeshna Sengupta |
| 194 | CP Chandrasekhar | 524 | Neelan Premji | 854 | Sudha Chaudhari |
| 195 | CP Geevan | 525 | Neelima Sharma | 855 | Sudha Gopalakrishnan |
| 196 | CS Chandrika | 526 | Neeraj Malik | 856 | Sudha Nagavarapu |
| 197 | Cyril Mathias | 527 | Neha Singh | 857 | Sudhanshi Vasudev |
| 198 | D K Shukla | 528 | Nikhat Reaz | 858 | Sudhanshu Mishra |
| 199 | D Narasimha Reddy | 529 | Nikhil Jois | 859 | Sudhanva Deshpande |
| 200 | Dakxin Chhara | 530 | Nikhil Narkar | 860 | Sudhir Chandra |
| 201 | Damodar Mauzo | 531 | Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | 861 | Sudhir Singh |
| 202 | Darshana Dave | 532 | Nilanjana Bhowmick | 862 | Sudhir Suman |
| 203 | Dayanidhi Chaudhary | 533 | Nina Rao | 863 | Suhit Kelkar |
| 204 | Debabrata Roy Laifungbam | 534 | Nipun Makkar | 864 | Sujata Srinivasan |
| 205 | Debasish Chatterji | 535 | Niranjan Kumar | 865 | Sujay Saple |
| 206 | Debjani Sengupta | 536 | Nirmal Harindran | 866 | Sukhmani Riar |
| 207 | Debmalya Ghosh | 537 | Nirupama | 867 | Sumangala Damodaran |
| 208 | Deepak Kumar Rai | 538 | Nisha Biswas | 868 | Sumanta Banerjee |
| 209 | Deepak Sanan | 539 | Nisshat Sheikh | 869 | Sumi Krishna |
| 210 | Deepak Sinha | 540 | Nityanand Gayen | 870 | Sunanda Bhat |
| 211 | Deepika | 541 | Nivedita Menon | 871 | Sunanda Mehta |
| 212 | Deepika Tandon | 542 | Noor Zaheer | 872 | Sundar Burra |
| 213 | Deepti Saini | 543 | NP Chekkutty | 873 | Suneeta Chaturvedi |
| 214 | Dev Desai | 544 | NP Hafiz Mohamad | 874 | Sunetra Neogy |
| 215 | Devaki Khanna | 545 | NS Madhavan | 875 | Sunil P Elayidom |
| 216 | Devashish Makhija | 546 | Nupur Asher | 876 | Sunil Shanbag |
| 217 | Devdan Chaudhuri | 547 | Nupur Basu | 877 | Sunit Sinha |
| 218 | Devendra Choube | 548 | Om Saini | 878 | Sunita Viswanath |
| 219 | Devika | 549 | P Rajasekhar | 879 | Sunitha Kumar Emmart |
| 220 | Devika Singh | 550 | Padma Velaskar | 880 | Sunny Dhiman |
| 221 | Devyani Srinivasan | 551 | Padmaja Shaw | 881 | Supriya Chaudhuri |
| 222 | Dhirendra K Jha | 552 | Pali Bhupinder Singh | 882 | Supriya Shukla |
| 223 | Dilip Borkar | 553 | Pallav | 883 | Surabhi Sharma |
| 224 | Dimple Oberoi Vahali | 554 | Pallavi MD | 884 | Suresh Babu |
| 225 | Dinanath Sumitra | 555 | Pamela Philipose | 885 | Suresh Chabria |
| 226 | Dinesh Abrol | 556 | Pankaj Bist | 886 | Suresh Korati |
| 227 | DN Jha | 557 | Pankaj Chaturvedi | 887 | Suresha B |
| 228 | Dolphy D’souza | 558 | Parikshit Dalal | 888 | Surupa Sen |
| 229 | Dunu Roy | 559 | Pariplab Chakraborty | 889 | Suryanarayana Reddy R |
| 230 | Durga Bhavani S | 560 | Parvathi Menon | 890 | Susan Barton |
| 231 | Dvijendra Nath Kalia | 561 | Parvez Ahmad | 891 | Sushant Shalini |
| 232 | Ebbar Rabbi | 562 | Paula Mariwala | 892 | Sushi Kadanakuppe |
| 233 | EV Ramakrishnan | 563 | Phaniraj K | 893 | Sushma Varma |
| 234 | Faisal Khan | 564 | PK Parakkadavu | 894 | Sushma Veerappa |
| 235 | Faraz Ahmad | 565 | PK Pokker | 895 | Sushmit Ghosh |
| 236 | Faredoon Bhujwala | 566 | PK Satish | 896 | Svati Joshi |
| 237 | G Hariramamurthi | 567 | PN Gopikrishnan | 897 | Svati Shah |
| 238 | G Rajashekhar | 568 | Poile Sengupta | 898 | Swapna Liddle |
| 239 | G Ramakrishna | 569 | Poonam Girdhani | 899 | Swarn Kanta |
| 240 | Gafoor Karuvannur | 570 | Poonam Kaushik | 900 | Swatija Manorama |
| 241 | Gajendra Narayan Sharma | 571 | Poonam Tushamad | 901 | Syantani Chatterjee |
| 242 | Gargi Bharadwaj | 572 | Poorna Swami | 902 | Syeda Hameed |
| 243 | Gauhar Raza | 573 | Prabal Agarwal | 903 | T Surendra Rao |
| 244 | Gautam Bhattacharya | 574 | Prabha Kumari | 904 | Tabasheer Zutshi |
| 245 | Gautam Krishnankutty | 575 | Prabha Pandey | 905 | Talib Khwaja |
| 246 | Gayatri Spivak | 576 | Prabhjot Kaur | 906 | Tani Bhargava |
| 247 | Geeta Kapur | 577 | Prabir Purkayastha | 907 | Tanwir Akhtar |
| 248 | Geeta Mahashabde | 578 | Pradeep Chakraverti | 908 | Tara Rao |
| 249 | Geeta Seshu | 579 | Pradeep K Deb | 909 | Tariq Khan |
| 250 | Geetanjali Shree | 580 | Pradip Kumar Datta | 910 | Tasneem Fatima |
| 251 | Geetha Mehra | 581 | Prakash Bare | 911 | Tathagata Bhattacharya |
| 252 | Geetha Thoopal | 582 | Prakash Chaturvedi | 912 | Tejal Kanitkar |
| 253 | Geetika Vidya Ohlyan | 583 | Pramod Bagde | 913 | Thelma Taylor |
| 254 | Ghanshyam Shah | 584 | Pramod Kale | 914 | Tiny Shah Singh |
| 255 | Ghasi Ram Chaudhry | 585 | Pramod Kumar | 915 | TK Rajalakshmi |
| 256 | Ghazala Jamil | 586 | Pramod Ranjan | 916 | TK Thomas |
| 257 | Gigi Scaria | 587 | Prashant Mukherjee | 917 | TM Krishna |
| 258 | Giitanjali Chiya | 588 | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | 918 | TM Thomas |
| 259 | Girdhar Rathi | 589 | Pratishtha Pandya | 919 | Tony Sequeira |
| 260 | Giriraj Kishore | 590 | Praveer Peter | 920 | Uday Narkar |
| 261 | Gita Jayaraj | 591 | Prem Jha | 921 | Udaya Kumar |
| 262 | Githa Hariharan | 592 | Prem Kumar Vijayan | 922 | Udit Yadav |
| 263 | Glenissa Pereira | 593 | Prem Tiwary | 923 | Ujjwal K Chowdhury |
| 264 | Goddanti Omkarnath | 594 | Premshankar | 924 | Ullattil Achu |
| 265 | Gopal Menon | 595 | Pritam Paul | 925 | Uma Gupta |
| 266 | Gopal Pradhan | 596 | Prithpal Sehdave | 926 | Upendra Shankar |
| 267 | Gopal prasad | 597 | Priya Sarukkai Chabria | 927 | Usha Rai |
| 268 | Gopika Chowfla | 598 | Priyanka | 928 | Utsa Patnaik |
| 269 | Gopika Nath | 599 | Priyanka Borpujari | 929 | V Alan Bosco |
| 270 | Gopinath Ravindran | 600 | Priyanka Pathak | 930 | V N Tripathi |
| 271 | Gourab Ghosh | 601 | Punam Zutshi | 931 | Vaasanthi |
| 272 | Govind Ram | 602 | Purushothama Bilimale | 932 | Vaasanthi Sundaram |
| 273 | Gowreesh Kapani | 603 | Purushottam Agrawal | 933 | Vagish K Jha |
| 274 | Gudavarthy Vijay | 604 | Pushpamala N | 934 | Vakeel Sahni |
| 275 | Gun Nidhi | 605 | Qaiser Shamim | 935 | Vakulabharanam Ramakrishna |
| 276 | Gurjit Singh Cheema | 606 | R Nagaraj | 936 | Valay Singh |
| 277 | Gurpreet Sidhu | 607 | R Padmini | 937 | Valerie Baliwalla |
| 278 | Gyan Prakash | 608 | R S Joshi | 938 | Vani Subramanian |
| 279 | H Pattabhirama Somayaji | 609 | Radha Kumar | 939 | Vani Verma |
| 280 | Habib Khan | 610 | Radhika Chadha | 940 | Varun Prabhat |
| 281 | Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar | 611 | Radhika Kapur | 941 | Vasudha Dalmia |
| 282 | Hanumakshi Gogi | 612 | Radhika Menon | 942 | Vasundhara Chauhan |
| 283 | Hany Babu | 613 | Raghu Godavarthi | 943 | Veena Hariharan |
| 284 | Harish Khare | 614 | Raghvendra Raghav | 944 | Veena Naregal |
| 285 | Hariyash Rai | 615 | Rahman Abbas | 945 | Venita Coelho |
| 286 | Harriet Raghunathan | 616 | Rahul Chandra | 946 | Venkataramana Aithal |
| 287 | Harsh Kapoor | 617 | Rahul Kumar Ishwar | 947 | Venkitesh Ramakrishnan |
| 288 | Harsh Mander | 618 | Rajan Gurukkal | 948 | Venugopal Rao |
| 289 | Hemendra Chandaliya | 619 | Rajan Gurukkal | 949 | Vibha Maurya |
| 290 | Hemlata Mahishwar | 620 | Rajani Mani | 950 | Vibha Puri Das |
| 291 | Himanjali Sankar | 621 | Rajashri Dasgupta | 951 | Vickram Crishna |
| 292 | Himanshu Pandya | 622 | Rajat Datta | 952 | Vidya Das Arora |
| 293 | Himmat Seth | 623 | Rajat Nagpal | 953 | Vidya Vakulabharanam |
| 294 | Hiralal Rajasthani | 624 | Rajeev Bhargava | 954 | Vidyut Gore |
| 295 | Hiralal Rajasthani | 625 | Rajendra Chenni | 955 | Vijay Crishna |
| 296 | Iliyas Husain | 626 | Rajendra Kumar | 956 | Vijay Padaki |
| 297 | Imrana Khan | 627 | Rajendra Prasad Singh | 957 | Vijay Prashad |
| 298 | Ina Puri | 628 | Rajendra Rajan | 958 | Vijay Swami |
| 299 | Inder Salim | 629 | Rajendra Sah | 959 | Vijaya Venkataraman |
| 300 | Indira Unninayar | 630 | Rajendra Sharma | 960 | Vijayaraghavan |
| 301 | Indranee Dutta | 631 | Rajesh Joshi | 961 | Viji Iyengar |
| 302 | Indrapramit Roy | 632 | Rajesh Kumar | 962 | Vikas Maniar |
| 303 | Indu Agnihotri | 633 | Rajesh Kumar | 963 | Vikash kumar |
| 304 | Indu Chandrasekhar | 634 | Rajesh Umadevi Srinivas | 964 | Vikash Narain Rai |
| 305 | Iqbal Niyazi | 635 | Rajiv Gupta | 965 | Vikram Iyengar |
| 306 | Ira Bhaskar | 636 | Rajiv Velicheti | 966 | Vikram Tandon |
| 307 | Ishrat Syed | 637 | Raju Sharma | 967 | Vilasini Kumar |
| 308 | J Devika | 638 | Rakesh Gupta | 968 | Vimala KS |
| 309 | Jahangir Asghar Jani | 639 | Rakesh Tiwari | 969 | Vineet Tiwari |
| 310 | Jahar Kanungo | 640 | Rakhi Basu | 970 | Vineetabh |
| 311 | Jai Arjun Singh | 641 | Ram Rahman | 971 | Vineetabh Kumar |
| 312 | Jaiwanti Shukla | 642 | Ramchandra PN | 972 | Vinyasa Hegade |
| 313 | Jamsheed Rizwani | 643 | Ramesh Bajaj | 973 | Vipin Balguher |
| 314 | Janarthanan T | 644 | Ramesha | 974 | Vipin Negi |
| 315 | Jasleen Randhawa | 645 | Ramji Ray | 975 | Virkein Dhar |
| 316 | Jatin Sheth | 646 | Ramona Adhikari | 976 | Vishakha Chanchani |
| 317 | Javed Malick | 647 | Ramsharan Joshi | 977 | Vishnu Nagar |
| 318 | Jawari Mal Parakh | 648 | Ramya Pothukuchi | 978 | Vishnu Prabhakar |
| 319 | Jawhar Sircar | 649 | Rana Khan | 979 | Vivan Sundaram |
| 320 | Jaya Iyer | 650 | Ranabir Samaddar | 980 | Vivek Narayanan |
| 321 | Jaya Rani | 651 | Ranbir Kaleka | 981 | Vivek Yadav |
| 322 | Jayant Pawar | 652 | Randhir Singh | 982 | Wasi Haider |
| 323 | Jayaprakash Nd | 653 | Rani Day Burra | 983 | Winston Dsouza |
| 324 | Jayati Ghosh | 654 | Ranjan Kumar | 984 | Yasir Abbasi |
| 325 | Jeet Thayil | 655 | Ranjani Shankar M | 985 | Yousuf Saeed |
| 326 | Jeevan Singh | 656 | Ranjani Shettar | 986 | Zafar Agha |
| 327 | Jeevan Singh | 657 | Ranjit Hoskote | 987 | Zaheer Ali |
| 328 | Jenny Rowena | 658 | Ranjith Shankaran | 988 | Zahoor Siddiqui |
| 329 | Jeroo Mulla | 659 | Rashme Sehgal | 989 | Zasha Colah |
| 330 | Jerry Pinto | 660 | Rashmi Sawhney | 990 | Zoya Hasan |
