Sixty-six longstanding readers, admirers of the Economic & Political Weekly have written to the Trustees of the Sameeksha Trust welcoming the appointment of Paranjoy Guha Thakurta as the next Editor of EPW and expressing confidence that Mr. Thakurta will be a worthy successor to Rammanohar Reddy. The letter also reiterates concerns about the governance issues at EPW.
Read the full text of the letter and list of signatories below, with a forwarding note from N. Ram, Chairman, Kasturi&Sons Ltd.
January 28, 2016.
To the Trustees of the Sameeksha Trust
1. Deepak Nayyar (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
2. DN Ghosh (Managing Trustee)
3. Romila Thapar
4. Andre Beteille
5. Deepak Parekh
6. Rajeev Bhargav
7. Jean Dreze
8. Rammanohar Reddy (ex-officio)
Dear Trustees,
I write to forward this letter on behalf of the undersigned readers, admirers, and friends of EPW. Kindly take this as the final text; the list of endorsers of the letter now includes one more name, that of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya.
With our regards,
N. Ram
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January 28, 2016
Dear Trustees,
As longstanding readers, admirers, and friends of the Economic & Political Weekly, we warmly welcome the appointment of Paranjoy Guha Thakurta as the next Editor of EPW and compliment the Board of Trustees on making this excellent choice.
We are confident that Paranjoy will be a worthy successor to an outstanding Editor, Rammanohar Reddy, and keep the EPW flag – and the 50-year-old magazine's core secular, democratic, and progressive values – flying high.
We continue to remain concerned about the governance issues at EPW we had raised in our earlier letter to you, dated January 15, 2016, and we renew our appeal to the Board of Trustees to address these issues at the earliest.
With regards,
1) Itty Abraham, National University of Singapore
2) Dilip Abreu, Princeton University, USA
3) Isher Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Indian Council for Research into International Economic Relations, Delhi
4) Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist
5) Venkatesh Athreya, former Professor, Bharatidasan University, Tamil Nadu
6) Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
7) Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley, USA
8) Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
9) Aditya Bhattacharjea, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
10) Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, historian and former Chair of the Indian Council of Historical Research
11) Achin Chakraborty, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
12) Pinaki Chakraborty, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
13) C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
14) Partha Chatterjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
15) Sudip Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
16) Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
17) Satish Deshpande, University of Delhi
18) S. Mahendra Dev, Director & Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
19) Ritu Dewan, President, Indian Association of Women’s Studies
20) Biswajit Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
21) Navroz Dubash, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi
22) Ramachandra Guha, historian, writer, Bengaluru
23) Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford University and
Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
24) Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
25) Neeraj Hatekar, Director, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai
26) Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
27) Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, CERI, Universite Sciences Po, Paris
28) Devaki Jain, economist, Delhi
29) T. Jayaraman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
30) Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
31) Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
32) Surinder Jodhka, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
33) Mary E. John, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi
34) Kalpana Kannabiran, Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad
35) K. P. Kannan, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
36) Sushil Khanna, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata
37) Sunil Khilnani, Kings College, London
38) Atul Kohli, Princeton University, USA
39) Sashi Kumar, Chairman, Media Development Foundation, Chennai
40) Chandan Mukherjee, Ambedkar University, Delhi
41) Indra Munshi, Professor & ICSSR Senior Research Fellow, Mumbai
42) Rinku Murgai, The World Bank, New Delhi
43) R. Nagaraj, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai
44) Pulin Nayak, retired Professor of Economics and former Director, Delhi School of
Economics, University of Delhi
45) Suhas Palshikar, University of Pune, Pune
46) Rohini Pande, Harvard University, USA
47) S. Parasuraman, Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
48) N. Ram, Chairman, Kasturi & Sons Ltd., The Hindu group of newspapers, Chennai
49) M. V. Ramana, Princeton University, USA
50) Partha Ray, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata
51) D. Narasimha Reddy, Institute of Human Development, New Delhi
52) Vikas Rawal, Jaawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
53) Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London
54) E.A.S. Sarma, former Secretary, Government of India
55) Abhijit Sen, former Member, Planning Commission, Government of India
56) Kalyani Menon-Sen, researcher, Feminist Learning Partnerships, Delhi
57) Pronab Sen, Chairman, National Statistical Commission
58) Mihir Shah, former Member, Planning Commission, Government of India
59) Dipa Sinha, Ambedkar University, Delhi
60) Ravi Srivastava, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
61) Padmini Swaminathan, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
62) Sukhadeo Thorat, Chairman, ICCSSR, New Delhi
63) Jeemol Unni, Director, Institute of Rural Management, Anand
64) A. Vaidyanathan, economist
65) M. Vijayabaskar, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
66) Yogendra Yadav, Swaraj Abhiyan
