We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the health of 11 respected fellow citizens:
1. Mr. Varavara Rao
2. Ms. Sudha Bhardwaj
3. Ms. Shoma Sen
4. Mr. Anand Teltumbde
5. Mr. Gautam Navlakha
6. Mr. Arun Ferreira
7. Mr. Vernon Gonsalvez
8. Mr. Surendra Gadling
9. Mr. Mahesh Raut
10. Mr. Sudhir Dhawale
11. Mr. Rona Wilson
These activists, many of them eminent scholars, writers and poets, have worked for the welfare of India’s poorest and most marginalised people over decades. Yet they have been turned into politcal prisoners and incarcerated. They have not been granted bail despite the fact that in the prisons of Maharashtra where they are being detained, some inmates have died and many others have tested positive for COVID-19.
In Assam, Akhil Gogoi, who has repeatedly raised his voice against human rights violations by the state, has been denied bail.
These activists are not convicted criminals. Nor are they planning to flee the country and escape the law. We demand that they be granted bail immediately on humanitarian grounds as their lives are at risk at a time when a pandemic is raging across the country. We have learnt that Mr. Varavara Rao who is 80 years old is already ill and has been removed to a police hospital.
It is also shocking that Safoora Zargar, the pregnant student from Jamia Millia University in her second trimester, who was arrested for protesting against the CAA, is being denied bail. This places her life and that of her unborn child at risk.
Young student leaders too, including from Jamia University and JNU, who led the democratic, peaceful public protests in Delhi, challenging the CAA, NPR and NRC, have been implicated in criminal cases and placed behind bars, during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Safoora Zargar and the other students should all be granted bail along with the activists mentioned above.
The fear of the the COVID-19Â “rampaging through prisons” has been expressed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
It’s also worth remembering that the American Bar Association – Center for Human Rights has called on the Indian government to immediately release human rights defenders being incarcerated in jails across India.
We are very disturbed at the insistence on incarcerating eminent human rights defenders and student dissenters under such circumstances. The focus should surely not be on the suppression of dissent in our country, but on the containment of the pandemic for all, in prison and out of it.
If some of our most eminent social activists, and dissenting students, all of who selflessly strove for a better India, are deliberately lodged in jails where the COVID-19 is waiting to devastate their health, then the government shall be held wholly responsible for any detrimental impact of COVID-19 on the said persons.
We, the people of India, as well as the rest of the world, will be watching closely how those who stand with the marginalised and democratically dissent are treated by this government. All activists and human rights defenders should be immediately released on bail. We demand nothing less.
Read the statement in Hindi here.
Read the statement in Kannada here.
Read the statement in Bangla here.
Read the statement in Marathi here.
Read the statement in Malayalam here.
In solidarity,
| 1 | A Mangai (Theatreperson) | 252 | Nandita Das (Film Director, Actor) |
| 2 | A Selvaraj (Retired Civil Servant) | 253 | Nandita Haksar (Lawyer) |
| 3 | Abeer Chakravarty (Concerned Citizen) | 254 | Nandita Palchoudhuri (Concerned Citizen) |
| 4 | Abha Bhaiya (Concerned Citizen) | 255 | Nandita Puri (Author and Journalist) |
| 5 | Abha Dev Habib (Assistant Professor, University of Delhi) | 256 | Nandita Puri (Author and Journalist) |
| 6 | Abhijit Mazumdar (Teacher) | 257 | Nandita Puri (Author and Journalist) |
| 7 | Abhijit Sengupta (Retired Civil Servant) | 258 | Naresh Dadhich (Emeritus Professor, Scientist) |
| 8 | Abhish Mathew (Comedian) | 259 | Naseeruddin Shah (Actor, Director, Teacher) |
| 9 | Achin Vanaik (Retired Professor of International Relations) | 260 | Natasha Badhwar (Writer, Film-maker) |
| 10 | Adil Jussawalla (Poet) | 261 | Navanita Lahiri (Concerned Citizen) |
| 11 | Aditi Mediratta (Writer) | 262 | Nayantara Sahgal (Writer) |
| 12 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Filmmaker) | 263 | Neel Dutt (Music Composer) |
| 13 | Afaque Azad (Sound Engineer) | 264 | Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry (Theatre director) |
| 14 | Ahmehussain Shaikh (Retired Banker) | 265 | Neena Verma (Concerned Citizen) |
| 15 | Ajay Noro (Filmmaker) | 266 | Neeraj Ghaywan (Filmmaker) |
| 16 | Ajit Kumar Ray (Professor, University of North Bengal) | 267 | Neeraj Malik (Writer) |
| 17 | Ajitha GS (Editor) | 268 | Neeta Kolhatkar (Independent journalist) |
| 18 | Akeel Bilgrami (Professor, Columbia University) | 269 | Nikhil Dey (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan) |
| 19 | Alankrita Srivastav (Writer, Filmmaker) | 270 | Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay (Author and Journalist) |
| 20 | Ambikasuthan Mangad (Malayalam Fiction Writer and Activist) | 271 | Nilima Sheikh (Painter) |
| 21 | Ameet Parameswaran (Assistant Professor, JNU) | 272 | Nilkanth N Meshram (Concerned Citizen) |
| 22 | Amit Bhaduri (Former Professor Emeritus at JNU) | 273 | Nilkanth N Meshram (Concerned Citizen) |
| 23 | Amit Chaudhuri (Author) | 274 | Niranjan Pant (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 24 | Amita Joseph (Advocate) | 275 | Nirmala Garg (Writer) |
| 25 | Amitabh Pandey (Writer) | 276 | Nisha Biswas (Scientist and Activist) |
| 26 | Amitabha Pande (IAS Retired) | 277 | Nisha Philip (Artist) |
| 27 | Amitav Ghosh (Writer) | 278 | Nityanand Jayaraman (Writer, social activist) |
| 28 | Amiya Bhusan Tripathy (Retired civil servant) | 279 | Nityanand Tiwari (Writer) |
| 29 | Ammu Joseph (Journalist and Author) | 280 | Nivedita Basu (Writer, Producer) |
| 30 | Amol Palekar (Filmmaker) | 281 | NK Raghupathy (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 31 | Anand BK (Indie Documentary Filmmaker & Historian) | 282 | Nupur Asthana (Film Director) |
| 32 | Ananta Mahapatra (Director, Film & Theatre) | 283 | Oishik Sircar (Concerned Citizen) |
| 33 | Ananth Iyer (Recruitment Professional) | 284 | Onir (Writer, Filmmaker) |
| 34 | Ania Loomba (Academic) | 285 | Orijit Sen (Artist) |
| 35 | Anik Dutt (Film Director) | 286 | Padma Ramesh (Concerned Citizen) |
| 36 | Animesh Chakraborty (Editor) | 287 | Padmaja Shaw (Retired Professor, Osmania University) |
| 37 | Anirban Bhattacharya (Theatre and Film Actor) | 288 | Padmakumar N (Concerned Citizen) |
| 38 | Aniruddha Deb Psychiatrist and concerned citizen | 289 | Pallab Sarkar (Assistant Professor, City College, Kolkata) |
| 39 | Anita Kanwal (Actor/designer) | 290 | Pamela Philipose (Journalist) |
| 40 | Anita Rampal (Educationist) | 291 | Pankaj Bisht (Writer) |
| 41 | Anitha Thampi (Poet) | 292 | Paul Zacharia (Fiction writer) |
| 42 | Anju Dodiya (Artist) | 293 | Pia Ganguly (Writer) |
| 43 | Ankur Tewari (Singer, Lyricist) | 294 | Piyali Ganguly (Painter, Writer and Ex-journalist) |
| 44 | Anna Dani (Retired Civil Servant) | 295 | PK Pokker (Writer, Visiting Professor, Calicut University) |
| 45 | Annu Dhandhi (Concerned Citizen) | 296 | Poile Sengupta (Writer) |
| 46 | Anuradha Chenoy (Professor, JNU) | 297 | Pooja Bhatt (Actor, Producer) |
| 47 | Anuradha Kapoor (Feminist, Activist) | 298 | Poornalingam R (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 48 | Anuradha Kapur (Former director of National School of Drama) | 299 | Poornima (Artist) |
| 49 | Anurag Kashyap (Filmmaker) | 300 | PR Dasgupta (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 50 | Ànvita Abbi (Linguist) | 301 | Prabha Pandey (Writer) |
| 51 | Anwar Ali (Poet) | 302 | Pradip Kakkar (Active Citizen) |
| 52 | Aparna Sen (Filmmaker, Writer, Actor) | 303 | Prakash Raj (Film Actor, Director & Producer) |
| 53 | Apoorv Thacker (Filmmaker) | 304 | Pramod Ranjan (Writer) |
| 54 | Arjun Sengupta (Assistant Professor, TISS Hyderabad) | 305 | Praveen Singh (Concerned Citizen) |
| 55 | Arpita Chatterjee (Writer) | 306 | Preethi Maroli (Brand Consultant) |
| 56 | Arshia Dhar (Journalist) | 307 | Prem Tiwari (Writer) |
| 57 | Arun Goyal (Writer) | 308 | Premila Nazareth Satyanand (Concerned Citizen) |
| 58 | Aruna Roy (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan) | 309 | Priti Chandriani (Concerned Citizen) |
| 59 | Arundhati Dhuru (NAPM) | 310 | Priti Issar (Farmer/Educator) |
| 60 | Arundhati Roy (Writer) | 311 | Priyanka Bhaduri (Mental Health Worker) |
| 61 | Asghar Wajahat (Writer) | 312 | Priyanka Londhe (Concerned Citizen) |
| 62 | Ashim Kumar Mukherjee (Retired Professor, IIT BHU) | 313 | PSS Thomas (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 63 | Ashok Bhowmic (Writer) | 314 | Punam Zutshi ( Artist and Independent Social Scientist) |
| 64 | Ashok Kumar Maitra (Professor, IIESTS) | 315 | Pushpamala N (Painter and Installation Artist) |
| 65 | Ashok Kumar Pandey (Writer) | 316 | Quasar Thakore Padamsee (Theatre Director) |
| 66 | Ashok Kumar Sharma (Retired Civil Servant) | 317 | R Narayan (Teacher) |
| 67 | Ashok Vajpeyi (Poet) | 318 | R Padmini (Social Activist) |
| 68 | Atamjit (Playwright and Director) | 319 | Rabin Chakraborty (Concerned Citizen) |
| 69 | Atul Gurtu (Scientist) | 320 | Rachel Chatterjee (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 70 | Atul Kumar (Theatre Actor, Director, Producer) | 321 | Radha Kumar (Writer) |
| 71 | Averee Chaurey (Concerned Citizen) | 322 | Radhika Jhaveri (Concerned Citizen) |
| 72 | Ayesha Kidwai (Professor, JNU) | 323 | Rahamath Tarikere (Academic, critic) |
| 73 | Ayushya Kaul (PhD Peace and Conflict Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia) | 324 | Rahman Abbas (Writer) |
| 74 | Badri Raina (Writer) | 325 | Rahul Khullar (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 75 | Bajrang Bihari (Writer) | 326 | Raja Mitra (Filmmaker) |
| 76 | Bama (Writer) | 327 | Rajashri Dasgupta (Journalist) |
| 77 | Banani Kakkar (Enviromentalist) | 328 | Rajeev Rai (Consulting Structural Engineer) |
| 78 | Bhanuj Kappal (Independent Journalist) | 329 | Rajendra Chenni (Writer) |
| 79 | Bharati Jagannathan (Associate Professor, Delhi University) | 330 | Rajesh Joshi (Writer) |
| 80 | Bibi Russell (UNESCO Artist for Peace) | 331 | Rajiv Gupta (Former Professor, University of Rajasthan) |
| 81 | Bikram Ghosh (Percussionist, Music Composer) | 332 | Raju Sharma (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 82 | Binita Mukherjee (Concerned Citizen) | 333 | Rakhi Basu (Designer) |
| 83 | Bolan Gangopadhyay (Freelance Journalist) | 334 | Rakhi Sarkar (Art Curator) |
| 84 | Brijesh Kumar (Retired Civil Servant) | 335 | Ram Rahman (Photographer) |
| 85 | BRP Bhaskar (Journalist) | 336 | Ram Sharan Joshi (Writer) |
| 86 | C Balakrishnan (Retired Civil Servant) | 337 | Rani Day Burra (Filmmaker/editor) |
| 87 | Chaman Lal (Author and Retired Professor, JNU) | 338 | Ranjan Ghosh (Writer and Director) |
| 88 | Chanchal Chauhan (Writer) | 339 | Ratheesh Pisharody (Writer & Environmental Activist, Bengaluru) |
| 89 | Chandrakant Patil ( Poet and Writer ) | 340 | Ratna Pathak Shah (Actor, Theatre Worker) |
| 90 | Chandrakant Patil (Writer, Academic) | 341 | Ratnaboli Bose (Concerned Citizen) |
| 91 | Chandrima Roy (Concerned Citizen) | 342 | Ravi Kiran Ayyagari (Filmmaker) |
| 92 | Chhitra Subramaniam (Film Producer) | 343 | Reena Mohan (Filmmaker) |
| 93 | Chinmay Shrotri (Filmmaker) | 344 | Rekha Awasthi (Writer) |
| 94 | Chiranjib Sen (Economist) | 345 | Riddhi Sen (Theatre & Film Actor) |
| 95 | CK Meena (Freelance Journalist and Author) | 346 | Ridhima Mehra (Concerned Citizen) |
| 96 | Dakxin Chhara (Filmmaker and Dramaturge) | 347 | Ritu Menon (Feminist Writer & Publisher) |
| 97 | Damodar Mauzo (Writer) | 348 | Riyas Komu (Artist) |
| 98 | Danish Aslam (Writer, Filmmaker) | 349 | Rochito Talukder (Concerned Citizen) |
| 99 | Darshan Shah (Textile Entrepreneur) | 350 | Romila Thapar (Historian) |
| 100 | David Solomon (Bagaicha) | 351 | Roshmi Goswami (Human rights activist) |
| 101 | Deb Mukharji (Retired Civil Servant) | 352 | Rukhsar Nafis (Concerned Citizen) |
| 102 | Debajyoti Mishra (Musician & Composer) | 353 | Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Professor of Linguistics and Writer) |
| 103 | Debashis Dutt (Doctor) | 354 | RV Ramani (Filmmaker) |
| 104 | Debi Mukhopadhyay (Teacher and Writer) | 355 | S Krishnaswamy (Retired Professor Ex Madurai Kamaraj University) |
| 105 | Deepak Sanan (Retired Civil Servant) | 356 | S Raghunandana (Kannada poet, playwright, stage director) |
| 106 | Devaki Khanna (Freelance editor) | 357 | Sahba Husain (Writer) |
| 107 | Devashish Makhija (Screenwriter & Filmmaker) | 358 | Saikat Majumdar (Writer) |
| 108 | Devi Prasad Mishr (Writer) | 359 | Saleem Peeradina (Writer) |
| 109 | Devika Banerjee (Interior Designer) | 360 | Salil Biswas (Concerned Citizen) |
| 110 | Dhritiman Chaterji (Actor and Communicator) | 361 | Salim Yusufji (Freelance editor) |
| 111 | Dibakar Bhattacharjya (Advocate) | 362 | Sam Kadri (Concerned Citizen) |
| 112 | Dwarika Prasad Charumitra (Writer) | 363 | Sameera Iyengar (Theatreperson and Cultural Practitioner) |
| 113 | Elizabeth Koshy (Film Producer) | 364 | Samik Bandyopadhyay (Critic of the Arts) |
| 114 | Faisal Khan (Social Worker and Activist) | 365 | Samina Mishra (Filmmaker, Writer & Teacher) |
| 115 | Firoza Khan (Filmmaker) | 366 | Sanal Kumar Sasidharan (Film Maker, Kerala) |
| 116 | Freny Manecksha (Independent Journalist) | 367 | Sandeep Pandey (Socialist Party (India)) |
| 117 | G Balachandhran (Retired Civil Servant) | 368 | Sandeep Vaidya (Technology Professional, Activist) |
| 118 | G Ramakrishna (Retired professor) | 369 | Sandhya Gokhale (Writer, Filmmaker) |
| 119 | G Sankaran (Retired President, CEGAT) | 370 | Sanjay Bhattacharyya (Concerned Citizen) |
| 120 | Gajendra Narayan Sharma (Concerned Citizen) | 371 | Sanjay Kak (Filmmaker and Writer) |
| 121 | Gangadharan Menon (Writer and Teacher) | 372 | Sanjay S Upadhyay (Writer/Director) |
| 122 | Gautam Landge (Concerned Citizen) | 373 | Sanjay Walke (IT professional endorse) |
| 123 | Gavin Methalaka (Theatre and Film Actor) | 374 | Sanjaya Kumar Bohidar (Associate Professor, Delhi University) |
| 124 | Geeta Kapur (Art historian, Delhi) | 375 | Sanjeev Kumar (Writer) |
| 125 | Geeta Seshu (Co-editor, Free Speech Collective) | 376 | Sanjib Mukhopadhyay (Gynaecologist & health activist) |
| 126 | Geeta Shah (Concerned Citizen) | 377 | Sankar Varma (Research Fellow) |
| 127 | Geetanjali Shree (Writer) | 378 | Santhosh S (Writer) |
| 128 | Giovanna Leva (Ballet teacher, choreographer) | 379 | Sarala M (Retired Lecturar) |
| 129 | Girdhar Rathi (Writer) | 380 | Sashi Kumar (Journalist) |
| 130 | Githa Hariharan (Writer) | 381 | Satish Chand Abbi (Retired Professor, IIT Delhi) |
| 131 | GN Devy (Social Scientist) | 382 | Satvir Singh (Concerned Citizen) |
| 132 | Goutam Ghose (Filmmaker) | 383 | Satyabhama Subramanian (Retired civil servant) |
| 133 | GS Cheema (Retired Civil Servant and writer) | 384 | Saumya Chakrabarti (Professor, Visva-Bharati University) |
| 134 | Guneet Monga (CEO/Producer) | 385 | Saumyajit Bhattacharya (Associate Professor, University of Delhi) |
| 135 | Gyan Pandey (Professor of History, Emory University) | 386 | Sayani Gupta (Actor) |
| 136 | Hansal Mehta (Film Director) | 387 | Shabana Azmi (Film and Theatre Actor) |
| 137 | Hansal Mehta (Filmmaker) | 388 | Shabnam Hashmi (Social activist) |
| 138 | Haridas Pada (Concerned Citizen) | 389 | Shabuddin Sayed (Civil Construction Co) |
| 139 | Harikesh Bairwa (Singer & Theare activist) | 390 | Shahana Goswami (Actor) |
| 140 | Hariyash Rai (Writer) | 391 | Shahnaab Alam (Film Producer) |
| 141 | Harsh Deo (Journalist) | 392 | Shaili Sathyu (Theatre practitioner) |
| 142 | Harsh Mander (Activist, writer) | 393 | Shamya Dasgupta (Journalist) |
| 143 | Hemant Divate (Poet and Publisher) | 394 | Shanka Ghosh (Poet, Bengal) |
| 144 | Hemlata Mahishwar (Writer) | 395 | Shankar Singh (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan) |
| 145 | Hindal Tyabji (Retired Civil Servant) | 396 | Sharad Raj (Filmmaker) |
| 146 | Hiralal Rajasthani (Writer) | 397 | Sharada Ganesh (Environmental Activist & Writer) |
| 147 | Hitten Tejwani (Actor, Director) | 398 | Sharda Dixit (Concerned Citizen) |
| 148 | Hussain Haidry (Poet, Writer) | 399 | Sharda Ugra (Journalist) |
| 149 | Ibbar Rabbi (Writer) | 400 | Shashi Deshpande (Writer) |
| 150 | ID Khajuria (Concerned Citizen) | 401 | Shashi Kumar Singh (Concerned Citizen) |
| 151 | Inder Salim (Performance artist) | 402 | Sheba Chhachhi (Artist/Photographer) |
| 152 | Indira Chandrasekhar (Scientist, Writer, Editor) | 403 | Shefali Jha (Academic) |
| 153 | Indira Jaising (Lawyers Collective) | 404 | Shobha Banerjee (Concerned Citizen) |
| 154 | Indrajit Dasgupta (Concerned Citizen) | 405 | Shoma A Chatterji (Writer) |
| 155 | Indrani Mukherjee (Producer) | 406 | Shoma Chaudhury (Journalist) |
| 156 | Ira Ghosh (Teacher and Communicator) | 407 | Shreekumar (Organic Farmer) |
| 157 | Irene Dhar Malik (Film Editor) | 408 | Shruti Seth (Actor) |
| 158 | Ish Mishra (Writer/academic) | 409 | Shubhra Chaturvedi (Artist and Photographer) |
| 159 | Ishrat Syed (Writer) | 410 | Shuchi Kaushik (Educationist) |
| 160 | Jaaved Jaaferi (Actor-Producer) | 411 | Sipra Mukherjee (Professor, West Bengal State University) |
| 161 | Jabeen Merchant (Film Editor) | 412 | SK Das (Architect) |
| 162 | Javed Akhtar (Poet, Lyricist, Writer) | 413 | Smriti Nevatia (Writer, Film professional) |
| 163 | Javed Malick (Writer) | 414 | Somok Roy (Graduate Student, University of Delhi) |
| 164 | Jawahar Sircar (Rtd. Culture Secretary of India) | 415 | Soumitra Chatterjee (Film and Theatre Actor) |
| 165 | Jayanta Ray (Concerned Citizen) | 416 | Sourendro-Soumyojit (Musician Duo) |
| 166 | Jayashree Dasgupta (Rabindrasangeet singer) | 417 | Souvik Mondal (Script writer & Filmmaker) |
| 167 | Jayati Ghosh (Professor, JNU) | 418 | SS Venkateswaran (Data scientist) |
| 168 | Jean Dreze (Economist) | 419 | Subhasis Bandyopadhyay (Associate Professor, IIEST, Shibpur) |
| 169 | Jeroo Mulla (Concerned Citizen) | 420 | Subhasmita Chakrabarti (Creative Producer) |
| 170 | JM Parakh (Writer) | 421 | Subhir Rajan Mavunkal (Concerned Citizen) |
| 171 | Joy Goswami (Poet, Writer, Bengal) | 422 | Subir Das (Chartered Accountant) |
| 172 | Jyothi A (Activist and Writer) | 423 | Subodh Lal (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 173 | Jyoti Punwani Freelance journalist | 424 | Suchismita Dasgupta (Textile & Costume Designer) |
| 174 | K John Koshy (Retired Civil Servant) | 425 | Suchitra Krishnamoorthi (Artist) |
| 175 | K M Srinivasa Gowda (Former Professor of Pathology) | 426 | Suchsmita Dasgupta (Textiles and Costume Designer) |
| 176 | K Padma (Advocate) | 427 | Sudeshna Banerjee (Independent researcher and editor) |
| 177 | K Srilata (Poet, Chennai) | 428 | Sudeshna Basu (Journalist) |
| 178 | K. Satchidanandan (Poet, academic, translator) | 429 | Sudhanshi Vasudev (Concerned Citizen) |
| 179 | Kabi (Activist) | 430 | Sudhanva Deshpande (Author, Actor, Publisher) |
| 180 | Kalki Koechlin (Actor) | 431 | Sudhir Chandra (Writer) |
| 181 | Kalpana Swaminathan (Writer) | 432 | Sudhir Patwardhan (Artist) |
| 182 | Kalyani Chaudhuri (Retired civil servant) | 433 | Sudhir Vombatkere (Rtd. Major General) |
| 183 | Kamla Bhaseen (Social Activist) | 434 | Suhaas Ahuja (Actor, Musician) |
| 184 | Karthik Venkatesh (Writer and Editor) | 435 | Suhasini Mulay (Actor) |
| 185 | Kaushik Sen (Theatre Director, Film & Theatre Actor) | 436 | Sukhversha Chopra (Writer) |
| 186 | Kaustav Bakshi (Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University) | 437 | Suman Kansra (Concerned Citizen) |
| 187 | Kavita Krishnan (Secretary, AIPWA) | 438 | Suman Mukhopadhyay (Theatre and film director) |
| 188 | Kavitha Lankesh (Filmmaker) | 439 | Sumanta Banerjee (Writer and Political Commentator) |
| 189 | Keki Daruwalla (Poet) | 440 | Sumantra Ghosal (Filmmaker) |
| 190 | KG Sankara Pillai (Poet) | 441 | Sumi Krishna (Independent Scholar) |
| 191 | Koel Sen (Filmmaker & Artist) | 442 | Sumit Sarkar (Historian) |
| 192 | Konkona Sensharma (Film Director, Writer, Actor) | 443 | Sundar Burra (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 193 | KP Ramanunni (Writer) | 444 | Sunil Shanbag (Theatre Director) |
| 194 | KP Sasi (Filmmaker) | 445 | Sunita Kakralia (Concerned Citizen) |
| 195 | Krishna K Ladha (Professor) | 446 | Sunita Reddy (Concerned Citizen) |
| 196 | Krishna Roy (Concerned Citizen) | 447 | Sunny Lahiri (Cinematographer/Writer) |
| 197 | Krishnendu Karar (Director, writer, production designer) | 448 | Surajit Mazumdar (Professor, JNU) |
| 198 | Kumar Prashant (Chairman,Gandhi Peace Foundation) | 449 | Suresh Babu (Concerned Citizen) |
| 199 | Kumar Shahani (Filmmaker) | 450 | Suresh K Goel (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 200 | Kumkum Roy (Historian) | 451 | Susan (Counsellor) |
| 201 | Kunal Basu (Concerned Citizen) | 452 | Sushil Khanna (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta) |
| 202 | Kuttirevathi (Poet, Tamil) | 453 | Sushma Mishra (Trainer and Traveller) |
| 203 | Lakshay (Concerned Citizen) | 454 | Suyash Maurya (Research Scholar) |
| 204 | Layashree Joshi (Filmmaker) | 455 | Swara Bhaskar (Actor) |
| 205 | Lillete Dubey (Film & Theatre Actor) | 456 | Syeda Hameed (Activist, educationist & writer) |
| 206 | MA Baby (Educationsist and Parliamentarian) | 457 | Tabasheer Zutshi (Designer) |
| 207 | Madhu Bhaduri (Former Ambassador) | 458 | Talmiz Ahmad (Retd Ambassador) |
| 208 | Madhusree Dutta (Filmmaker and Curator) | 459 | Tanika Sarkar ( Historian) |
| 209 | Maithili Rao (Film Critic & Author) | 460 | Tanmay Dhanania (Actor) |
| 210 | Makarand Sathe (Writer) | 461 | Taran Gulati (SVP, Project Management) |
| 211 | Mala Dayal (Publisher, writer) | 462 | Tejal Kanitkar (Associate Professor, NIAS) |
| 212 | Mallika Sarabhai (Dancer) | 463 | Tilottama Sarkar (Tiruvannamalai) |
| 213 | Mamta Sagar (Poet, Translator) | 464 | TM Krishna (Musician, Writer) |
| 214 | Mamta Singh (Concerned Citizen) | 465 | Toopsi Ray (Concerned Citizen) |
| 215 | Mangad Rathnakaran (Writer) | 466 | Uma Biju (Costume Designer) |
| 216 | Mangalesh Dabral (Poet) | 467 | Uma Chakravarti (Historian) |
| 217 | Manishi Jani (Writer) | 468 | Uma DaCunha (Film Critic and Writer) |
| 218 | Manju Kapur (Writer) | 469 | Uma DaCunha (Film Festival Programmer) |
| 219 | Manohar Notani (Writer-Translator) | 470 | Umakant, Independent Scholar |
| 220 | Manoj Kulkarni (Writer) | 471 | Uttam Sirur (Writer) |
| 221 | Mansi Bhatt (Visual artist) | 472 | Uttara Varma Assistant News Editor |
| 222 | Mariette Valsan (Model/Actor/Activist) | 473 | Vandana Kataria (Writer, Director, Production Designer) |
| 223 | Maya Krishna Rao (Theatre Artist) | 474 | Vandana mahar (Producer, writer) |
| 224 | Meena Gupta (Retired Civil Servant) | 475 | Vedika (Concerned Citizen, writer & poet) |
| 225 | Meenal Tatpati (Environmental Researcher) | 476 | Veena Bakshi (Filmmaker) |
| 226 | Meenu Vadera (Social Activist) | 477 | Vibha Puri Das (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 227 | Meera Devidayal (Artist) | 478 | Vijay Padaki (Theatre Educator and Management Professor) |
| 228 | Mehernosh Bharucha (Concerned Citizen) | 479 | Vijay Prashad (LeftWord Books) |
| 229 | MG Devasahayam (Retired Civil Servant) | 480 | Vikas Narayan Rai (Writer) |
| 230 | Miloon Kothari (Human Rights Scholar/Activist) | 481 | Vikas Sivaraman (Cinematographer) |
| 231 | Mira Nair (Filmmaker) | 482 | Vikram Anand (Concerned Citizen) |
| 232 | Mithu Das (Associate Professor, Calcutta University) | 483 | Vikram Iyengar (Dancer, Choreographer-curator) |
| 233 | MMP Singh (Writer) | 484 | Vikram Soni (Concerned Citizen) |
| 234 | Mohankumar V (Professor, Manipal) | 485 | Vikramaditya Motwane (Filmmaker) |
| 235 | Monica Raheja (Producer) | 486 | Vinay Shukla (Concerned Citizen) |
| 236 | MP Pratheesh (Poet) | 487 | Vincent Sunder (Concerned Citizen) |
| 237 | Mridula Koshy (Writer and Library Movement Activist) | 488 | Vinod Raja (Filmmaker) |
| 238 | MS Sriram (Faculty Member IIMB) | 489 | Viplav Teltumbde (Advocate) |
| 239 | Mudar Patheria (Communicator) | 490 | Vishal (Student) |
| 240 | Muhammad Mach (Scientist/Engineer) | 491 | Vishnu Nagar (Poet) |
| 241 | Mukul Kesavan (Writer) | 492 | Vishwanath Tripathi (Writer) |
| 242 | Mustafa Rangwala (Writer) | 493 | Vishwesh Rajratnam (Lecturer) |
| 243 | N Manu Chakravarthy (Professor of English) | 494 | Vistasp Hodiwala (Advertising Professional) |
| 244 | Nagalsamy (Retired Civil Servant) | 495 | Vivan Sundaram (Artist) |
| 245 | Naina Dayal (Academic) | 496 | Vivek Madan (Theatre actor, producer) |
| 246 | Namita Singh (Writer) | 497 | VP Raja (Retired Civil Servant) |
| 247 | Nancy Adajania (Cultural Theorist and Curator) | 498 | Yaaneea Bharadwaj (Actor) |
| 248 | Nandana Reddy (Activist) | 499 | Yusuf Kirmani (Senior Journalist) |
| 249 | Nandini Rao (Screenwriter) | 500 | Zeena Oberoi (Researcher) |
| 250 | Nandini Sundar (Sociologist) | 501 | Zoya Hasan (Political scientist) |
| 251 | Nandita Bagchi (Associate Professor) |
This post was updated on June 19, 2020.
