Madhusree Mukerjee is a writer, science journalist and former physicist. Her new book, Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II uses meticulous research and new sources to relate how Winston Churchill and his war cabinet exhaustively used Indian resources to fight the Second World War, provoking famine and insurrection in the eastern province of Bengal. The book is also a riveting account of the triumphant but tragic final stage of India’s freedom movement.

Madhusree's previous book, The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders relates the devastating experiences of the hunter-gatherers of the Andaman Islands as they come face to face with modern civilization.

Madhusree has also written about indigenous rights, nuclear liability, climate change, the Bhopal gas disaster, animal research and a variety of other issues involving science and society.
 

Ruins of British settlement on Ross Island, Andamans