Ram Puniyani (born 25 August 1945) 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. He has been involved with human rights activities and initiatives to oppose Hindu fundamentalism in India and is currently the President of the Executive Council of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS). Activism He 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.. He had been vocal for stopping the death sentence of Afzal Guru, a convict of the 2001 Indian Parliament Attacks, alleging that at worst Guru was facilitator in the crime and not a part of directly perpetrating the crime. On the other hand he advocates for investigation of 'Hindutva terror'. In March 2019, men in plain clothes claiming to be from CID, asked about the whereabouts of his children. In early June 2019, he claimed that he received threatening phone calls from unknown persons who demanded that he stop his "anti-Hindu" activities and leave the country. Puniyani filed a report with the Mumbai Police. Awards Maharashtra Foundation (US) award for Social awareness about threat of Communal Politics 2002 National Communal Harmony Award 2007 NCHRO's Mukundan C.Menon award 2015 Works Clinical Hemorheology: New Horizons (New Age International, 1996), Applied Clinical Hemorheology (with Hideyuki Nimi, Quest Publications, 1998), The Other Cheek: Minorities under Threat (Media House, 2000), Second Assassination of Gandhi (University of Leicester, 2002), Communalism: What is False: What is True (with Khalid Azam, Bombay Sarvoda Friendship Center, 2002) Communal Politics: Facts Versus Myths (2003), Communalism: Illustrated Primer (Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust and J&P Publications, 2004), Hindu Extreme Right-Wing Groups : Ideology and Consequences (Media House, 2004), Fascism of Sangh Parivar (Media House, 2004),