Bindu Puri is Professor of Contemporary Indian Philosophy at the Centre for Philosophy Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Her main interests are in the areas of contemporary Indian philosophy and moral and political philosophy. She has been seriously engaged with the philosophy of M.K Gandhi and has published the following monographs; Gandhi and the Moral Life (2004) and The Tagore-Gandhi Debate: On Matters of Truth and Untruth ( Springer,2015).Her most recent monograph The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: On Identity, Community and Justice(Springer,2022) is currently in press. Her eighth edited volume Reading Sri Aurobindo – Metaphysics, Ethics and Spirituality is also currently in press with Springer Publications. She has written over 50 papers in edited anthologies and philosophical journals and presented over 160 papers and lectures.

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.