Meera Nanda

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

Life

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

Nanda is the author of numerous articles in specialist journals and a number of monographs. She is a regular contributor to The Frontline and The Hindu .

In her book Prophets Facing Backward (2003), Nanda argues that the postmodern left has led to the rise of Hindu nationalism . This is because Hindu superiority thinking is based on the postmodern assumption that every society has its own concepts of reason , logic , and truth , which allowed nationalists to replace modern science with mystical and obscure elements of Hinduism . The book won the 2007 Hiralal Gupta Award from the Indian History Congress . Dan Dennett called it "brave and important".

Fonts (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 Collectives, 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV of Nanda via Jawaharlal Nehru University ( memento of the original from April 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 89 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jnu.ac.in
  2. ^ Prophets Facing Backward. Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India . 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Nanda, Meera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian author
DATE OF BIRTH 1954