Meera Nanda
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1957 –
Who is Meera Nanda?
Meera Nanda is an Indian writer, historian and philosopher of science with a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was a John Templeton Foundation Fellow in Religion and Science. In January 2009, she was a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Study, in the Jawaharlal Nehru University for research in Science, Post-Modernism and Culture. Currently, she is a visiting faculty of history and philiosophy of science at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.
She has authored several works on religion, most notably Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India, and her 2009 book The God Market which examines how India is experiencing a rising tide of popular Hinduism, including Government of India financing of Hinduism despite the nation's secular characteristic. The book was also reviewed by William Dalrymple in Outlook Magazine.
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