Among the signatories, there are eminent names of the likes of Professors Thomas Blom Hansen, Partha Chatterjee, Ayesha Jalal, Christophe Jaffrelot, Veena Das, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Marc Galanter and Professors Richard Falk, Arjun Appadurai, Jonathan Parry, Ramachandra Guha, Farid Esack, TN Madan, Ian Copland, Tanika Sarkar and Uma Chakravarty from a wide range of places such as Europe, the USA, UK, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, Argentina and Palestine. [read post]