Madhusree Mukerjee

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Madhusree Mukerjee
Born1961 (age 59–60)[1]
West Bengal, India
Education
OccupationWriter
Notable work
Churchill's Secret War (2010)
Websitemadhusree.com

Madhusree Mukerjee (born 1961)[1] is an Indian-American writer and journalist. She is the author of The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders (2003) and Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (2010). She is also a contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and an editor with Scientific American.[2]

Early life and education[]

Mukerjee was born in West Bengal, India. She graduated from Jadavpur University with a degree in physics. After obtaining a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago—supervised by Yoichiro Nambu[3]—she began post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[4]

Writing[]

After Caltech, Mukerjee took up science journalism and worked for Physics Today for one year and Scientific American for seven years.[5][6][3] She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, The Land of Naked People (2003).[6][7][8] In her second book, Churchill's Secret War (2010), Mukerjee documents the role played by the policies, as well as the racial and political worldview, of the war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his trusted friend and advisor Frederick Lindemann, in the death and devastation caused by the Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of India.[9]

Personal life[]

Mukerjee lives in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics at Frankfurt University, and their son.[1]

Selected works[]

  • Mukerjee, Madhusree (2014). "A Prime Example of British Civilization (1943) from Biplabi". In Schiffrin, Anya (ed.). Global muckraking : 200 years of investigative journalism from around the. [S.l.]: New Press. ISBN 1595589732.
  • Mukerjee, Madhusree (2011). Churchill's secret war : the british empire and the ravaging of india during world war ii. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0465024815.
  • Mukerjee, Madhusree (2003). The land of naked people : encounters with Stone Age islanders. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0618197362.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Who's afraid of Amartya Sen?". The Telegraph. Kolkata. 27 February 2011.
  2. ^ "Madhusree Mukerjee: Home".
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "A fleeting force of physics". Division of the Physical Sciences, The University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Madhusree Mukerjee: Bio and Contact".
  5. ^ "Madhusree Mukerjee interviewed by John Horgan", BhTV, 18 September 2010, from 00:00:59 Archived 2018-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "Bio and Contact" Archived 2017-09-10 at the Wayback Machine, madhusree.com.
  7. ^ Sengoopta, Chandak (2 September 2010). "Churchill's Secret War, By Madhusree Mukerjee". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016.
  8. ^ Horton, Scott (4 November 2010). "Churchill's Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee". Harpers. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016.
  9. ^ Lelyveld, Joseph (23 December 2010). "Did Churchill Let Them Starve?". The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016.

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