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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 moral and political philosophy. Puri has over 50 papers in edited anthologies and philosophical and interdisciplinary journals; including Sophia, Philosophia and the Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. She has authored three monographs; Gandhi and the Moral Life (2004) The Tagore-Gandhi Debate: On Matters of Truth and Untruth (Sophia: Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, Vol. 9, Springer 2015);and The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: On Identity, Community and Justice (Singapore:Springer Nature, 2022). She has seven edited volumes, the most recent being Rethinking Religious Pluralism: Moving Beyond Liberal Tolerance (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2020). She has presented over 160 papers and lectures at national and international forums. Professor Puri delivered the prestigious annual M K Gandhi lecture on Peace and the Humanities 2017 for the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa, Canada as well as the Johnson and Hastings lectures at the University of Mount Allison Canada for the same year.

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