Meera Nanda

Meera Nanda (born 1954 ) is an Indian biologist and philosopher of science. She is currently at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut operates.

Life

Nanda studied microbiology at the Punjab University (M.Sc., 1978). It was in 1983 received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology with a thesis on the biosynthesis of cellulase in Trichoderma reesei in New Delhi. From 1982 to 1985 she worked for the daily newspaper Indian Express in New Delhi as a science journalist for some years as project manager and editor for the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture in Minneapolis. 1990 to 1992 she wrote for the Daily Gazette in Schenectady. In 1993 she went to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she in 2000 a Ph.D. received in science research. It postdoctoral studies at Columbia University, the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Templeton Foundation.

Nanda is the author of numerous articles in professional journals as well as several monographs. She writes a regular contributor to The Front Line and The Hindu.

In her book Prophets Facing Backward (2003) Nanda argues that the postmodern Left has led to a rise of Hindu nationalism. This stems from the fact that the Hindu superiority thinking underlies the postmodern assumption that every society disponer about their own concepts of reason, logic, and truth, which nationalists could replace modern science with mystical and obscure elements of Hinduism. The book was awarded the Hiralal Gupta Award of the Indian History Congress in 2007. Dan Dennett called it " courageous and important."

Writings (selection )

  • Prophets Facing Backward. Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2003, ISBN 0-8135-3358-9.
  • Breaking the Spell of Dharma and Other Essays. Three Essay Press, New Delhi 2003, ISBN 81-88394-09-2.
  • The Wrongs of the Religious Right. Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva. Three Essays Collective, New Delhi 2005, ISBN 81-88789-31-3.
  • God Market. How Globalization Is Making India More Hindu. Random House Publishers, Noida 2009, ISBN 978-81-8400-095-5.
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