A.S.Panneerselvan is Executive Director of Panos South Asia and the Readers’ Editor of The Hindu. Apart from being a regular columnist, he is also a journalism teacher and is an adjunct faculty of the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. With wide experience in both print and television journalism, he is a board member of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen and Standards Editor representing Asia. He was a fellow of Reuters Journalism Fellowship programme at the University of Oxford in 1998.