Bindu Puri is a professor of contemporary Indian philosophy at the centre for philosophy, school of social sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru university. Her main interests are in the areas of contemporary Indian philosophy and political philosophy. Puri has over 58 papers in edited anthologies and philosophical and interdisciplinary journals. She has authored three monographs; Gandhi and the Moral Life (2004) The Tagore-Gandhi Debate: On Matters of Truth and Untruth (Springer Nature Publications: 2015);And The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: On Identity, Community and Justice (Springer Nature Publications: 2022). Her most recent book co-authored with Mrinal Miri is Gandhi For the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and Politics and is currently in press with Springer Nature Publications. She also has a forthcoming book Rabindranath Tagore: Peace in an Enchanted world with Routledge, India. She has eight edited volumes, the most recent being Reading Sri Aurobindo – Metaphysics Ethics and Spirituality(Springer Nature Publications:2022). She has presented over 180 papers and lectures at national and international forums. Professor Puri is a fellow of the Australia India Institute, university of Melbourne and was the Sugden fellow at Queen’s College, university of Melbourne for the year 2023. Puri delivered the prestigious annual ‘M K Gandhi lecture on Peace and the Humanities’ 2017 for the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa as well as the Johnson and Hastings lectures at the university of Mount Allison in Canada for the same year. Puri has also delivered the pretentious annual Sugden Oration 2023 at Queen’s College, University of Melbourne and lectures at the Australia India Institute and the Asian Law Centre of the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne in the same year
