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print versionPROTESTING POLICE ACTION AGAINST STRIKING FTII STUDENTS
August 23, 2015
We, the undersigned teachers, scholars and researchers, signatories to different statements issued in Solidarity with the Students of the Film &Television Institute of India (FTII), while reiterating our firm support to this historic strike by students, stand with the FTII Teachers’ Association, in unequivocally protesting ‘the manner in which students were picked up by the police in the dead of night (August 18/19) in the absence of senior members of the administration’.
The spread of ‘misinformation in the public domain’ the orchestrated ‘false campaign to malign the image of the protesting students’ and intimidatory tactics—such as the recent police action and the employment of ‘bouncers’ on campus— aimed at breaking their will, need to be brought to an immediate halt.
Instead, the important issues being raised by them, with conviction and consistency over the past many weeks, need to be urgently resolved in keeping with the best intellectual, artistic and democratic traditions of the FTII.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the statement belong to that of the signatories. They do not represent the position of their institutions.
Signatories:
- Mukul Mangalik, Dept. of History, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
- Uma Chakravarti, Historian, Teacher, Feminist
- Shohini Ghosh, Sajjad Zaheer Professor, AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
- Vidya Das Arora, Dept of English, Gargi College, Delhi University
- Janaki Nair, Professor, CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- G. Arunima, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Vinita Chandra, Ramjas College, Delhi University
- Rina Ramdev, Venkateswara College, Delhi University
- Kumkum Roy, Historian, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Pratiksha Baxi, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Suvritta Khatri, Deshbandhu College
- Pulin Nayak
- Nalini Nayak
- Saumyajit Bhattacharya, Dept of Economics, Kirori Mal College
- Ratna Raman, Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
- Debjani Sengupta, Department of English, I.P. College
- Mihir Pandey, Department of Economics, Ramjas College
- Roopa Dhawan, Ramjas College
- Rashmi Pant, Department of History, IP College, Univesrity of Delhi
- Nandini Dutta, Miranda House, University of Delhi
- Sanam Khanna, Kamla Nehru College, Univesrity of Delhi
- Shahana Bhattacharya, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University
- Pankaj Jha, LSR College
- Nivedita Sen, Hansraj College, University of Delhi
- Mohinder Singh, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Chitra Joshi, Indraprastha College, Delhi University
- Giti Chandra, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
- Meenakshi Malhotra, Hansraj College, University
- Deepika Tandon, Miranda House, University of Delhi
- Sharmila Purkayastha, Miranda House, University of Delhi
- Debaditya Bhattacharya, University of Calcutta
- Naveen Gaur, Dyal Singh College, Delhi University
- Rudrashish Chakraborty, Dept of English, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi
- Biswajit Mohanty, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi
- Amrapali Basumatary, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University
- Banajit Hussain, New Socialist Initiative
