List of Signatories (The institutional affiliations below are given only for purposes of identification. The signatories below have signed this statement in their personal capacity and not on behalf of their respective organizations) Sl No. Name Institution Indian Institute of Science Education and 1 Bhavtosh Bansal Research (Kolkata) Indian Institute of Science Education and 2 Koel Das Research (Kolkata) 3 Saikat Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) Indian Association for the Cultivation of 4 Sugata Ray Science International Centre for Theoretical 5 Suvrat Raju Sciences (Bengaluru) 6 Umang Bhat Indian institute of science 7 Ashley Tellis Independent Researcher 8 Kartik Sreedhar Washington State University 9 Sweta Dash NA PONUGUMATI 10 ANDHRA LOYOLA COLLEGE CHANDRAKANTH 11 Amritha Mather IIT GANDHINAGAR 12 Abdul Shaik KFUPM 13 Malay Bhattacharyya IIM Bangalore 14 Atreyi Dasgupta Baylor College of Medicine, Cancer Center 15 Anish Bhattacharya Indian Institute of Science 16 Chukka Srinivas San Jose, California Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 17 Brishti Modak Kolkata 18 Mayank Singh McGill University 19 Mamta Iitk 20 Sougata Guha IIT BOMBAY 21 Sriram Ganeshan City college of New York 22 Arati Chokshi None 23 Pavan Dharanipragada IMSc 24 Akeel Bilgrami Columbia University 25 Manas Geeta Arun IISER Mohali 26 Pratyush Bhattacharyya None 27 Ananyo Maitra Sorbonne Universite National Law School of India University, 28 Vignesh M Bangalore National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, 29 Nissim Kanekar Pune 30 Bharat Tandon The University of Texas at Austin, USA 31 Yadavindu Ajit IGIDR Mumbai 32 Rituparna Ghosh IISER Kolkata 33 Arnab Sarkar IIT KANPUR International Centre for Theoretical 34 Omkar Shetye Sciences, Bengaluru The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 35 R. Shankar Chennai 36 Sumilan Banerjee Indian Institute of Science 37 Jay Desai University of Southern California 38 Bobby Ezhuthachan RKMVERI 39 SRI VAMSI MATTA Chandrāto Collective Indian Association for the Cultivation of 40 Parijat Biswas Science, Kolkata Nanyang Technological University 41 Dr Vijaykumar VARMA Singapore 42 Pritha Dolai ICTS 43 Arnab Priya Saha Harish-Chandra Research Institute 44 Sankalp Choudhuri IISER Pune 45 Debasis Mondal Centre for Quantum Technology National Institute of Advanced Studies, 46 Anindya Sinha Bangalore 47 Naveen Gaur Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi) Universite Grenoble Alpes and Grenoble 48 Ronit kumar panda INP 49 Madhusudhan Raman TIFR, Mumbai 50 Nandini Ghosh Institute of Development Studies Kolkata Department of Physics and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied 51 Amitava Banerjee Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 20742 52 Saswata Ghosh IDSK 53 Navdeep Mathur Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 54 Dvij Mankad Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 55 Dr Shanta Laishram Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 56 Sumit Roy TIFR Mumbai 57 Adeeb N A IIT Delhi Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, 58 Vinod Vyasulu Bangalore. 59 Deepak Malghan IIM Bangalore 60 Nandini Chandra University of Hawaii at Manoa 61 Vineeta Bal IISER, Pune 62 Ashesh Dhawale Harvard University 63 Proteep Mallik Azim Premji University 64 Subhaditya Bhattacharya IIT Guwahati 65 Srinath Indian Institute of Management Indore (I am signing as an individual; you can look 66 Ashish Kothari me up on the net or wikipedia) 67 ANUPAM A H IMSc 68 Mritiunjoy Mohanty Indian Institute of Management Calcutta 69 Jyotirmay Srivastava IISER Thiruvananthapuram 70 Pulin B Nayak (Formerly at) Delhi School of Economics National Centre for Biological Sciences, 71 Sandeep Krishna Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education 72 Ishan Santra (TIFR, India) 73 Oindrila University of Surrey, UK 74 Sumeet Agarwal IIT Delhi 75 Sanjoy Paul Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Indian Institute of Science Education and 76 Aurnab Ghose Research, Pune Tata lnstitute of Fundamental Research, 77 Dattaraj Dhuri Mumbai 78 Debasis Sadhukhan Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków 79 Soumik Mukhopadhyay IIT Kanpur 80 M. V. Ramana University of British Columbia 81 Enakshi Bhattacharya IIT Madras 82 Meghana Rao Azim Premji University 83 R. Geeta None (retired from University of Delhi) 84 Vikramaditya Centre for Law and Policy Research Subham Dutta 85 TIFR Chowdhury 86 Amit Singh IIT Bombay 87 Aswin V IISER-Berhampur 88 Sandip V George University of Groningen 89 Amber Habib Shiv Nadar University 90 Arun Kumar Retd. Prof JNU 91 Ramesh Sreekantan Indian Statistical Institute 92 Sukanta Bhattacharya University of Calcutta 93 Siddhartha Ghosh IIT Bombay 94 Edwin Lobo IISER TVM 95 Priyadarshi Paul ICTS (TIFR) 96 Anirban Dinda NISER,BBSR 97 Sudipto Muhuri Savitribai Phule Pune University 98 Abha Dev Habib Miranda House, University of Delhi Center for Physics Education Research, 99 Partha Pratim Roy Kolkata 100 Sudipta Bandyopadhyay University of Calcutta 101 Shobha Madan I.I.T. Kanpur (Retired) 102 Parthasarathi Majumdar IACS, Kolkata 103 Abhishek Dhar ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 104 Rajorshi Ray Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 105 Varun Sharma PRL Ahmedabad 106 Surjadipta De Sarkar Indian Institute of Science 107 Abhishodh Prakash ICTS-TIFR 108 Anirban Kundu University of Calcutta 109 Aritra Sinha Jagiellonian University 110 Karen Gabriel St Stephen's College 111 Subir Sarkar University of Oxford 112 Ushak Rahaman University of Johannesburg 113 Rakhi Pratihar IITB 114 Karan Singh IISER TVM 115 LS SHASHIDHARA Ashoka University 116 Bihan Banerjee TIFR, Mumbai 117 Mriganka Sur Massachusetts Institute of Technology 118 Biswajit Sahoo Harish-Chandra Research Institute 119 Punit Sharma IIT Kanpur 120 Rahul Varman IIT Kanpur 121 Suman Chatterjee TIFR Mumbai Subhodeep 122 National Centre for Biological Sciences Bhattacharya 123 Praful Kumar Universität Rostock 124 Abha Sur MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA 125 Geetha Venkataraman Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi 126 Khorsed Alam HRI, Prayagraj (Allahabad) The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 127 Rahul Siddharthan Chennai 128 Shiv Sethi Raman Research Institute 129 Sougata Pal IISER Berhampur 130 Deepankar Basu Univesity of Massachusetts Amherst 131 Manjunath Krishnapur Indian Institute of Science 132 Harini SISSA Aradhita 133 Trinity college Dublin Chattopadhyaya National institute of advanced studies, 134 Sayan Banerjee Bengaluru 135 Niharika University of Delhi 136 Poulami Banerjee IISc 137 Ritumbra University of Groningen 138 Guruprasad Kar Indian Statistical Institute 139 Sudipta nayak Indian institute of science 140 Reeteka Sud NIMHANS 141 Robin Johri IIM Bangalore 142 Charudatta Navare Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education 143 Jyotsna jha Centre for budget and policy studies 144 Ranjini Mondol Indian institute of science 145 Harish C Karnick IIT Kanpur 146 Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay Author 147 Somnath Basu IISER Kolkata 148 Mahuya Datta Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 149 Sharachchandra Lele ATREE, Bengaluru 150 Samriddhi Sankar Ray ICTS 151 Naresh Dadhich IUCAA, Pune 152 Suddhasattwa Brahma McGill University 153 Shreya Kumbhakar IISc, Bangalore 154 Arun Karthik B IIT Kanpur 155 Samudra Sur Indian Institute of Science 156 Subhadip Biswas University of Sheffield 157 Pushkal Shrivastava Indian Institute of Science 158 Vaibhav Vaish IISER Mohali 159 Pinaki Chaudhuri IMSc, Chennai 160 Rajeswari Raina n.a. 161 Bittu K Rajaraman Ashoka University 162 anirban goswami SN bose national centre for basic sciences 163 Taushif Ahmed Max-Planck-Institute for Physics 164 Anirban Mandal IISc, Bangalore 165 ROHIT MUKHERJEE IIT Kanpur 166 Prem Kumar Vijayan Hindu College, Delhi University 167 Udvas Das Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 168 Aratrika Dey Indian institute of Astrophysics Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute 169 Kingshuk Bandopadhyay of Electronic Materials Technology 170 Anirban Kar Delhi School of Economics 171 Aditi Chaturvedi Ashoka University 172 Siddharth K J Independent Researcher 173 Anita Banerjee IISER TIRUPATI 174 Amrita Hazra IISER Pune 175 MANUJ MUKHERJEE Bar Ilan university 176 Balaji Narasimhan None Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of 177 K Ramesh Kumar Sciences 178 Abhik Jash Weizmann Institute of Science 179 Abhay Jindal Indian Institute of Science 180 Debrup Chakraborty Indian Statistical Institute 181 Supratim Sengupta IISER Kolkata 182 Prokash Kumar Kundu ICTS, Bengaluru 183 Arindam Roy Christ University Indian Institute of Science Education and 184 Abhijeet Singh Research Mohali 185 Sankar Prasad Jana IISER Berhampur 186 Snehalata Sahu Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru 187 Samrat Sen Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 188 Dr Sylvia Karpagam Public health doctor 189 Supriya Chaudhuri Jadavpur University (Retired Faculty) 190 Suchetan Das RKMVERI, Belur 191 Dipannita Podder IIT Kharagpur 192 U. K. Anandavardhanan IIT Bombay 193 Avirup Shaw NA 194 Ankan Paul IACS, Kolkata National Institute of Science Education and 195 Debamalya Dutta Research 196 Samiksha IIT Bombay 197 SANDEEP KUMAR Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore KATARIA 198 Aparn Sundar Independent Scholar, Toronto 199 Suranjan Sinha Independent researcher, formerly at DU. 200 Sukanta Chaudhuri Jadavpur University 201 Pradipta Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute 202 Satyanu Bhadra TIFR 203 Akshay IIT Bombay 204 Aahana Ganguly Azim Premji University 205 Alakta Das Indian Institute of Science 206 Barsha IISc 207 Maansi Shah Columbia University 208 Prarit Agarwal Queen Mary University of London The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 209 Aritra