# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meera-nanda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:59:03.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meera-nanda"
name: "Meera Nanda"
slug: "meera-nanda"
description: "Meera Nanda is an Indian writer and historian of science, who has authored several works critiquing the influence of Hindutva, postcolonialism and postmodernism on science, and the flourishing of pseudoscience and vedic science. Meera Nanda taught History of Science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali from 2009 to 2017, and later - from 2019 to 2020 - she was a Guest Faculty in Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune. In 2023 she became a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry."
tagline: "Indian philosopher and writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.192660550458716
  historical:           11.69301866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump