ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Editor and the Editorial Board gratefully acknowledge the following reviewers for their help in refereeing articles
in 2016. We apologize for inadvertent omissions.
Marta Abalos
Anas Abdulaziz
Asha-Abraham
Syed Abrar
Y. P. Abrol
Inder Pal Abrol
Naina Mohamed Abubacker
Bhupendra Singh Adhikari
Dibyendu Adhikari
S. P. Adhikary
Tapan Kumar Adhya
J. Adinarayana
Gautam Aditya
Basant Kumar Agarwala
Suresh Kumar Aggarwal
Deepa Agnihotri
Rakesh Chandra Agrawal
Sudhir Pal Ahlawat
Sarabjeet Singh Ahluwalia
Izrar Ahmed
Mohammed Muqtader Ahmed
Rafi Ahmed
Sirajuddin Ahmed
Ajai
P. Alagusundaramoorthy
M. O. Anand
Vijaya Anand
Sambandan Anandan
Kalaisekar Andiappan
Lenka Angelovicova
Deepak Apte
Burak Aricak
S. Arivazhagan
Ramakrishna Arkalgud
Ganeshamurthy Nanjundaiah Arkalgud
Sanjay Arora
Rohan Arthur
Rajasekar Aruliah
Keerthika Arumugam
V. Arunachalam
Ayyanadar Arunachalam
Subbiah Arunachalam
Uma K. Aryal
Majid Askari
Bushra Ateeq
Vidya Athreya
A. M. Awasthi
Ramanathan Ayothiraman
Farooq Azan
E. V. S. S. K. Babu
S. Suresh Babu
Sivakumar Babu
Vijayalakshmi Babu
Ruchi Badola
Snehal B. Bagatharia
Sumanta Bagchi
Ishmohan Bahuguna
D. K. Baidya
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Abhay Bajaj
N. Baktavatsalam
S. Balaji
Chakravarthy Balaji
Anand Setty Balakrishnan
Karthick Balasubramanian
Jayashree Bandal
Atmaram Hari Bandivdekar
Rajib Bandopadhyay
Soumyo Bandopadhyay
D. M. Banerjee
Amlan Banerjee
Dibyendu Banerjee
Rajkumar Banerjee
Santanu Banerjee
Subhadeep Banerjee
Alok Bang
Sudhir Kumar Barai
Vikas Chand Baranwal
Santanu Baruah
Biraj Bandhu Basak
Soumen Basak
Nagarajan Baskaran
Abhijit Basu
Aparna Basu
Atanu Basu
Parthiba Basu
Sejuti Basu
Naseema Begum
Manasa Ranjan Behera
Gajanan T. Behere
Vasuki V. Belavadi
Nsikak Benson
Kaushik Bharati
P. A. Loka Bharathi
Bhajantri Bharatkumar
O. N. Bhargava
Himender Bharti
Meenakshi Bharti
Avantika Bhaskar
Prasad Kumar Bhaskaran
Arbeen Ahmad Bhat
D. J. Bhat
Dinesh Bhat
Harish R. Bhat
Ramray Bhat
Dhiraj Devidas Bhata
Yash Veer Bhatnagar
Indra Dutt Bhatt
B. Bhattacharjee
Biplab Bhattacharya
Manpreet S. Bhatti
R. V. Bhavani
Ramesh Bhonde
Anirban Bhunia
Prem Bisht
T. K. Biswal
A. Boominathan
Basanta Kumar Borah
Swapnil P. Borse
Dwarka Nath Bose
Suryasarathi Bose
Rajashree Bothale
David Burslem
Mayuri Chabukdhara
R. K. Chadha
Anju Chadha
R. K. Chaitnya
Swarup Kumar Chakrabarti
Anirban Chakraborti
Pradip K. Chakraborti
Arindam Chakraborty
Asit Kumar Chakraborty
Debarghya Chakraborty
Debasish Chakraborty
Kunal Chakraborty
Pampa Chakraborty
Parthasarthi Chakraborty
Pinaki Chakraborty
Tapan Chakraborty
Akshay Chakravarthy
Srinandan Chakravarthy
L. S. Chamyal
Joyshree Chanam
Arun Nivrutti Chandore
C. K. Chandrika
Dilip Chate
Abhishek Chatterjee
Jhinuk Chatterjee
Anupam Chattopadhyay
Balaji Chattopadhyay
Naveen Chaudhri
Shakti Singh Chauhan
Malati G. Chauhan
Parth Randhir Chauhan
Narayan P. Chaulagain
Sangram Bhanudas Chavan
J. N. Chengalur
C. R. Chetan
Deepankar Choudhury
Ricardo Correia
Sorab Dalal
Krishnendu Dalui
R. J. Ranjit Daniels
P. K. Das
Debabrata Das
Bhabani Sankar Das
Madhurima Das
Aparup Das
Diptesh Das
Surajit Das
Arghya Das
Karabee Das
Bhabani Sankar Das
Anup Kumar Das
Subho Dasgupta
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Suvodip Dasgupta
S. K. Dash
Syed Dastager
Shailesh R. Dave
Priya Davidar
Cecelia Dayaraj
Mihir Deb
Rittik Deb
Dattesh V. Desai
Sachin S. Deshmukh
Gautam R. Desiraju
Lelitha Devi
Sagnik Dey
R. Dhanya
Anirban Dhar
Uppeandra Dhar
Baldev Singh Dhillon
A. P. Dimri
R. Dinesh
Seher Dirican
Prathapan K. Divakaran
B. V. Divya
Sham Diwaney
Balasimha Doddaballapur
Ashish N. Dongre
Muduru Lachhana Dora
Kavita Dorai
R. Doreswamy
Elrika D’Souza
Siddharth Pramod Dubhashi
Raymond A. Duraiswamy
Amit Dutt
Sushil Dutta
Santhosh Eapen
Advait Edgaonkar
B. Elango
Vivekanandan Elayaperumal
Hamid Eskandari
Muhammad Fahim
Benjamin Franklin
Alejandro Fuentes-Penna
Sulochana Gadgil
Ramchandra V. Gadre
Vineet K. Gahalaut
S. R. Gandhi
Vidyaramanan Ganesan
Kailash Chandra Garg
Narahari Sastry Garikapati
Ujjal Gautam
K. Gayithri
Xinmin Ge
N. Geetha
Boby George
Grinson George
Jenson V. George
Mahua Ghara
Zeinab Gholami
Aurnab Ghose
Anupam Ghosh
Biswajit Ghosh
Debosree Ghosh
Kausik Ghosh
Priyanka Ghosh
Saibal Ghosh
Sandipan Ghosh
Srimoyee Ghosh
P. K. Giri
Krishna Giri
P. L. T. Girija
R. M. Godbole
N. S. Gomathi
S. Gomathinayagam
Brij Gopal
Sai Gopal
Ankur Goswami
Debabrata Goswami
Rupen Goswami
V. V. Goud
Suresh Kumar Govindarajan
Mallikarjuna Mallana Gowdra
Gilbert Greub
J. R. Gumbo
Mukesh Gupta
Vikram Gupta
Rajan Gurukkal
Velidi Venkata Surya Gurunadharao
K. Abdul Hakeem
Ashutosh Haldar
Soumya Halder
Henna Hamadani
Roslida Abd Hamid
Santosh Haram
G. N. Hariharan
S. E. Hasnain
Gopal Hegde
Rajendra Hegde
Ramakrishna Hegde
Yashoda R. Hegde
Samu Hemmila
Mitavachan Hiremath
Nigel Hughes
A. Jaffar Husain
Faruque Hussain
Syed Ainul Hussain
Baban Shravan Ingole
Rafikul Islam
Sridhar D. Iyer
Manish Kumar Jain
Manjari Jain
Sanjay Jain
Sharad K. Jain
Vikrant Jain
Devendra Jalihal
Priyanka Jamwal
G. R. Janardhana
M. K. Janarthanam
Hasnain Javed
Mohammad Jawed
S. Arul Jayachandran
R. Jayangondaperumal
J. Jayanthi
Vikram Jayaram
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Rama Jayasundar
E. D. Jemmis
C. F. Jenkins
R. Jeyabaskaran
Chandrasekhar Jha
Sajan John
P. K. Joshi
Anand Joshi
Bheem Dutt Joshi
Himala Joshi
Jaideep Joshi
Kshitija Joshi
Navin Juyal
Rushinadha Rao Kakara
Vishwas Kale
Vivek Kale
Manikandan Kalimuthu
Shasi Vardhan Kalivendi
Rajiv S. Kalsi
Avinash C. Kamble
Felix Kaminsky
K. Kandiannan
Pragnya Kanekar
Praveen Karanth
Subhankar Karmakar
Prem Lal Kashyap
Werner Kaumanns
P. Kaur
P. Kaushal
Mark Kenoyer
P. C. Kesavan
Chetan Keswani
Nafees Khan
Lidita Khandeparker
Uttam Kumar Khedlekar
Ashu Khosla
Sharat Chandra Khuman
Rajesh Kochhar
R. K. Kohli
Mohan S. Komarlingam
Satoru Konnai
Rocktotpal Konwarh
Ramesh K. Kothari
Akhouri P. Krishna
H. S. Krishna
R. Ravi Krishna
K. V. Krishnamurthy
J. Murali Krishnan
L. V. Krishnan
Sivaram Krishnavajjhala
Vasudev Kshirsagar
G. U. Kulkarni
Anil Kulkarni
Abhishek Kumar
Ananda Kumar
Anil Kumar
Annam Pavan Kumar
Arun Kumar
Arvind Kumar
Biju Kumar
Bimlesh Kumar
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
C. Satish Kumar
Gireesh Kumar
Kamlesh Kumar
Makesh Kumar
Manoj Kumar
Mathava Kumar
Mukesh Kumar
Nagesh Kumar
Nandini Kumar
Pankaj Kumar
Praveen Kumar
Ravindra Kumar
Samba Kumar
Santosh Kumar
Senthil Kumar
Sree Kumar
Suresh Kumar
Vinit Kumar
Vinith Kumar
Vinod Kumar
Honnavalli Kumara
Maya Kumari
Rama Raju Kunadharaju
T. Kundu
N. Gopalan Kutty
S. C. Lakhotia
Ole Larsen
U. C. Lavania
Cheng-Wei Lice
Devendra Purushottam Lingojwar
Dakshayani Lomada
A. J. Van Loon
Clifford Jaylen Louime
K. P. Madhu
Rangaswamy Madugundu
S. Mahadevan
Girish Mahajan
Marthandan Mahalingam
Gagan Kumar Mahapatro
Kamalesh S. Mahar
A. Mahesha
H. P. Maheshwarappa
R. Maiti
Kaushik Majumdar
Mili Majumdar
S. Malarvannan
Santosh S. Mali
Sanjay Mandal
Sachin A. Mandavgane
Shamsudheen Mangalassery
Harish Mangesh
Monto Mani
Nithyanandan-Manickam
S. Manjula
K. R. Manjunath
Manoj
G. Marimuthu
David M. Maslove
George Mathew
John Mathew
Roll Mathur
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Shankar Meenakshisundaram
Rakesh Mehrotra
Sandhya Mehrotra
Ram Lal Mehta
Murlidhar Mendki
Ramesh Menon
J. M. Merigo
Marina Jovanovic Milenkovic
Ashwani Kumar Mishra
P. K. Mishra
Y. K. Mishra
Santanu Misra
Supriyo Mitra
M. H. Mohamed
K. S. Mohamed
Kanak Moharir
Swapnaja Ashish Mohite
Md. Erfan Ali Mondal
Mrityunjoy Mondal
K. Krishna Moorthy
Antonio Morandi
A. Mrozik
Pradipta Ranjan Muduli
Subroto Mukerjee
Abhijit Mukherjee
Pulok K. Mukherjee
Santanu Mukherjee
Saumitra Mukherjee
Shomita Mukherjee
Somenath Mukherjee
Joydip Mukhopadhyay
Malay Mukul
H. S. Mukunda
N. Mukunda
Hussain Munavar
Ranjini Murali
K. Muralidharan
S. Muralikrishnan
B. V. Krishna Murthy
B. S. Murty
Raveendran Muthurajan
Arumugam Muthuvel
Bela Nabar
P. V. Nagamani
S. Nagarajan
Raghavendra Murthy Nagendra
Shiva Nagendra
Satish Shivaji Naik
C. P. Reghunadhan Nair
Nishant Nair
Ramakrishnan Raghava Nair
Sudha Nair
V. J. Nair
Indumati Nambi
K. V. K. Nampoothiri
Umamahesh Nanduri
Prakash Nanthagopalan
Balaji Narasimhan
D. Narasimhan
Goutam Narayan
Malavika Narayana
G. Narayanan
M. Natarajan
Vasant Natarajan
Venkatanathan Natarajan
S. Natesh
Cheryl Nath
Mohammed Ibrahim Naveed
Yogendra Nayak
T. S. Nayar
Harendra Singh Negi
P. Nishy
Sanjay Kumar Ojha
Maheswar Ojha
Ashok Kumar Pachauri
Sameer Padhye
Biswaranjan Paital
Amlan J. Pal
Sivakumar Palaniappan
Anup Palit
Rajani Panchang
Hari Pandalai
Chetan Pandit
Dinesh Pandit
Sagar Pandit
S. K. Panhwar
Ajay Parida
Bikash Ranjan Parida
Manoranjan Parida
Pratap Kumar Parida
Surya Parkash
N. Parthasarathy
Prema Parvatharajan
Vardhan Patankar
Satish J. Patel
Apoorva Patel
Jayanta Pati
Gopal R. Patil
Jagadish S. Patil
Rajeev Patnaik
Manikandan Pattabhiraman
Bhushan Patwardhan
Liping Peng
Tiziana Pepe
P. Perumal
Santhi Perumal
Senthil Kumar Perumal
Imtiyaz Pervez
Beena Pillai
Padmesh Pillai
Vijayamohanan Pillai
Sneha M. Pinto
Rajeev Pisharody
Kumar Pitchumani
J. Prabakar
V. R. Prabavathy
C. S. Prabhakar
Mathyam Prabhakar
Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Adithya Pradyumna
S. Narendra Prasad
Kalika Prasad
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
G. V. R. Prasad
Vandana Prasad
K. D. Prathapan
Kamal Lochan Pruseth
Pallav Purohit
E. K. Radhakrishnan
Sindhu Radhakrishna
Rajeev Raghavan
Abhishek Rai
Ishwari D. Rai
Babu Govindha Raj
S. Raja
R. Rajamani
S. Rajalakshmi
Govindan Rajamohan
K. Rajan
Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan
Raghav Rajan
Rajkumar Rajan
Selvi Rajan
Mita Rajaram
R. Rajaraman
E. Rajasekar
G. Rajasekaran
Phani Rajasekhar
C. P. Rajendran
K. Rajendran
Joseph Rajkumar
Kirpa Ram
T. V. Ramachandra
K. B. Ramachandran
Prema Ramachandran
Gitakrishnan Ramadurai
D. Ramakrishnan
S. Ramakrishnan
V. Ramamurthi
K. Ramamurthy
A. I. Ramanathan
A. T. Ramaprasad
Geetha Ramaswami
S. Ramaswamy
M. Rammohan
Shirish A. Ranade
Sridhar Ranganathan
P. N. Rangarajan
M. Geetha Rani
Sandhya Rani
Pragya Ranjan
B. N. Rao
C. K. Rao
D. S. Rao
K. H. Rao
R. R. Rao
R. V. Rao
N. V. Chalapathi Rao
Durga Rao
K. V. Krishna Rao
K. V. Ramana Rao
Kesava Rao
C. Lakshmana Rao
Laxmi Rao
Madhusudhana Rao
Purnachandra Rao
Ravi Prasad Rao
Yalamanchili Subrahmanayeswara Rao
Benny Raphael
Chandrashekhar Raut
Lokesh Ravi
J. Ravindran
N. H. Ravindranath
C. N. Ravishankar
G. A. Ravishankar
G. S. Rawat
Jyotisankar Ray
Krishanu Ray
Pritha Ray
C. R. K. Reddy
Venkatarama Reddy
R. Rengalakshmi
Shashi Kumar Rhode
R. G. Robinson
Sergio Rosenzweig
Jose Rouillard
Aniruddha Datta Roy
Murali Mohan Roy
Probir Roy
Rajdeep Roy
Subarna Roy
Subhajit Roy
Kalyan Rudra
R. Rukmani
P. Sabiha
Subramanian Sabtharishi
K. K. Sabu
B. Sabulal
Amartya Saha
Peush Sahni
Dipti Ranjan Sahoo
Satya Sahoo
Binoy K. Saikia
Kalyan Saikia
Susanta Kumar Samanta
Deepak Samuel
Joseph Samuel
Alejandra Sanchez-Franks
Rajender Singh Sangwan
K. Sankarasubramanian
Abhisek Santra
Saroj Kumar Sanyal
M. M. Sarin
Ashish Sarkar
Sudipta Sarkar
K. K. Sarma
S. S. S. Sarma
Nittala Sarma
Siddhartha Sarma
Kumaran Sathasivam
Kamala Kanta Satpathy
Russ Schumacher
Shalini Sehgal
M. Sekhar
V. Selvam
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Muthamil Selvan
N. Selvaraju
D. J. Sen
Jonaki Sen
Ranjan Sen
Amlan K. Sengupta
Nakkeeran Serugapperumal
Mona Shah
S. Shankar Shalivahan
Uma Shankar
G. J. Sharma
J. R. Sharma
Kapil Mohan Sharma
Ketki Sharma
Komal Sharma
Lokesh Sharma
Mukund Sharma
Pramod Kumar Sharma
Ram Roshan Sharma
Rashmi Sharma
Shashi Prakash Sharma
Tarun Sharma
Varunkumar Sharma
Vinita Sharma
Yash Paul Sharma
H. C. Sheth
Anilkumar Jalindar Shinde
Mahantesh Shirur
Amit Shiuly
M. Shivakumar
K. R. Shivanna
U. Shrinivasa
Shyam
B. S. Shylaja
Rahul Siddharthan
A. K. Singh
Ajay Kumar Singh
Arun Singh
Baljeet Singh
J. S. Singh
Munendra Singh
Prashant Singh
Pratap Singh
Rachana Singh
Riddhi Singh
S. P. Singh
Sarnam Singh
Shailza Singh
Y. Singh
D. K. Sinha
R. K. Sinha
Nitin Ranveer Sinha
Ramakrishna Sistla
Nadia A. Soliman
J. D. Sophia
Panchagnula Manju Sree
P. M. Sreekanth
Anantha R. Sreepada
J. Srinath
V. Sriram
K. Srinivasan
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Veena Srinivasan
Neeraj Srivastava
Pankaj Srivastava
Sanjay Srivastava
Sankaranarayanan Subbayya
Bhattiprolu Subrahmanyam
Ramesh Subramani
Ahalya Subramanian
Manivannan Subramanian
S. Subramanian
V. Subramanian
G. Subramanya
S. Subramanya
K. P. Sudheer
H. S. Sudhira
Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
M. K. Sukumaran
Chakma Sumedha
K. S. Gopi Sundar
V. Sundar
N. Ravi Sundaresan
Mirle Surappa
H. S. Suresh
Kulbushan Suryawanshi
Dipani Sutaria
Olivera Sveljo
S. K. Tandon
Rajesh Tandon
Yuping Tang
Sujata Tetali
Virendra Kumar Tewari
Narsinh L. Thakur
Rajni Kant Thakur
T. Thangaradjou
Seenivasagan Thangaraj
Deeptha Thattai
Asokan Thondiyath
Jacob Kurian Thuruthumkara
Shri Kant Tripathi
Brij Kishore Tyagi
S. Uma Sankar
Govindhaswamy Umapathy
Banappa S. Unger
P. L. Uniyal
Sanjay Kumar Uniyal
Dewashish Upadhyay
Priti Vaidyanathan
Jishy Varghese
V. N. Vasudev
Vinod Vasudevan
D. K. Ved
S. S. Veena
Srinivasan Veeraraghavan
M. Velayutham
G. Venkataraman
R. Venkataraman
Raghu Venkataraman
A. S. Venkatesh
R. Venkatesan
S. Vennila
P. Venu
S. Venu
Pankaj Verma
N. S. Vidhyadhiraja
T. N. C. Vidya
V. Vijayalakshmi
K. K. Vinod
K. S. Viswanathan
Ajit Arun Waman
Akhlaq Amin Wani
Sanjay Wategaonkar
Milind Watve
Asmita A. Wele
M. K. Yadav
Ram Ratan Yadav
S. R. Yadav
Shweta Yadav
Bhupesh N. Yagnik
Vinod Kumar Yata
John T. Zachariah
G. Zaman
Xing Zhao
Ping Zhu
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