Talk:Satya Mohapatra

By Sachi Anjunkar

Satya Mohapatra is a physicist by training and at the time of the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference, he was a LIGO Identity and Access Management Developer at Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) CV accessed as of April 2023. According to his CV, he is currently a Scientific Support Analyst, at the California Institute of Technology.

In 2021, he fraudulently signed the letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference as an academic and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."