Madhusree Mukerjee (born 1961) ^[1] is an Indian-American physicist, writer, editor, 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 a contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and a senior editor with Scientific American. ^[2]

Early life and education

Mukerjee was born in West Bengal, India. She is a graduate of Jadavpur University with a degree in physics. After obtaining a Ph.D. 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]

Career

After completing her post-doctoral studies at Caltech, Mukerjee took up science journalism and worked for Physics Today for one year and since 2003, she has worked for Scientific American, ^{[5] [6] [3]} where she is the senior editor for science and society. ^[7]

She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitled The Land of Naked People (2003). ^{[6] [8] [9]} In her second book, entitled 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. ^[10]

Personal life

During 2011, Mukerjee was living 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  978-1595589736.
• Mukerjee, Madhusree (2011). Churchill's secret war : the british empire and the ravaging of india during world war ii. New York: Basic Books. ISBN  978-0465024810.
• Mukerjee, Madhusree (2003). The land of naked people : encounters with Stone Age islanders. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN  0618197362.

References

External links

• The Prime Minister and the Prof, Revisionist History (podcast) (interview with Mukerjee)
• Reddy, Sheela (September 2010). "Churchill's Famine?". Outlook.
• Hastings, Max (8 August 2010). "Churchill's Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee". The Times.