Ram Puniyani


Ram Puniyani is a former professor of biomedical engineering and former senior medical officer affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He began his medical career in 1973 and served IIT in various capacities for 27 years, beginning 1977. In December 2004, he took voluntary retirement to work full-time for what has been stated by some as "communal harmony" in India.
He is involved with human rights activities and initiatives to oppose something which some see as "the rising tide of fundamentalism in India".

Activism

He has is associated with various secular initiatives and has been part of various investigation reports on violation of human rights of minorities.
He has also served as part of an Indian People's Tribunal that investigated the violation of rights of minorities in the states of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
He regularly conducts seminars and workshops on topics related to the threat of communal politics, human rights, values of secularism, the Uniform Civil Code debate, the partition tragedy, Kashmir Imbroglio and others. He is known for his articles and essays which regularly appear in Indian magazines and newspapers. He also runs a fortnightly e-bulletin Issues in Secular Politics.
Early in June 2019, he claimed that he received threatening phone calls from unknown persons who demanded that he stop his "anti-Hindu" activities. Puniyani filed a report with the Mumbai Police.

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