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Govindarajan of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, V. Over a thousand professors from universities across the globe, across disciplines from Sanskrit, Mathematics, Astrophysics, History, Anthropology etc., have signed, including Naresh Dadhich of IUCAA, T.R. Singh, senior advocate at the Supreme Court, AGK Menon, architect and town planner, Shanta Sinha, former head of the NCPCR, and public figures like Devaki Jain, Medha Patkar, Sandeep Pandey, Swami Agnivesh, Aruna Roy and Yogendra Yadav.Īlso read: ‘ Charges Smack of Vindictiveness’: Journalists’ Union Condemns FIRs Against The Wire Several journalists have also joined the demand for media freedom including Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian, Manoj Joshi, formerly of The Times of India, and Bharat Bhushan and Nicholas Dawes, formerly of the Hindustan Times, Amit Baruah, resident editor of The Hindu, and Seema Chishti, senior editor of the Indian Express. Zoya Akhtar, Kiran Rao and Anand Patwardhan among the film-makers, and Dayanita Singh, Nikhil Roshan and Gauri Gill among the photographers. The sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor, and artists Atul Dodia, Rekha Rodwittiya, Vivan Sundaram, Arpita Singh, and Paramjit Singh are those who have signed.
The statement has also been endorsed by actors and artistes such as Rabbi Shergill, Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Nandita Das, Farhan Akhtar, T.M. Raghunandana are among the writers who have signed. Vikram Seth, Nayantara Sahgal, Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai, K. Gill, former CEC, Narendra Sisodia, former Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI, Anand Arni and Vappala Balachandran (both former Special Secretaries, RAW) and Sujatha Singh, former Foreign Secretary. Several former bureaucrats are signatories including Shivshankar Menon, f ormer foreign secretary and former National Security Adviser, Julio Ribeiro, former Adviser to Governor of Punjab and former Ambassador to Romania, M.S. Two former Chiefs of Naval Staff, Admiral Ramdas, and Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat have also signed, along with Yashwant Sinha, former external affairs and finance minister of India. Chandru, former judge of the Madras high court, and Justice Anjana Prakash, former judge of the Patna high court.Īlso read: UP Police Serve Notice on The Wire, Summon Founding Editor to Ayodhya Despite Lockdown
Lokur, former judge of the Supreme Court, Jim Spigelman AC QC, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and a former chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Justice K. The signatories also called upon the Indian media to not communalise the pandemic. “A medical emergency should not serve as the pretext for the imposition of a de facto political emergency,” the statement said.
They also urged the government of India and all state governments not to use the pandemic as a cover to trample upon media freedom. The signatories called upon the government of Uttar Pradesh to withdraw the FIR against Varadarajan and The Wire, and drop all criminal proceedings. The statement has called it, “a direct attack on freedom of the media.” New Delhi: More than 4,600 jurists, academics, actors, artists, writers and people from all walks of life have endorsed a statement expressing shock at the action of the Uttar Pradesh government and police under Yogi Adityanath in filing criminal charges against The Wire and one of its founding editors, Siddharth Varadarajan, for an entirely factual story on COVID-19 and religious events. Note: This article was first published on Apand is being republished on Apas the number of signatories increased.