Over 1,100 academicians, writers and civil society members have written to the Delhi University’s acting vice-chancellor, urging him to reinstate the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bama and Sukirtharani in the English (Honours) syllabus.

The petition came a few days after the teachers of English in DU made the same plea and accused the Oversight Committee of making a “complete mockery of all democratic and due processes” while drafting the syllabus. It has been signed by the likes of writers Arundhati Roy and Vikram Chandra, actors Sharmila Tagore and Shabana Azmi, filmmaker and writer Adoor Gopalakrishnan and filmmaker Anand Patwardhan.