A.S. Panneerselvan is Executive Director, Panos South Asia which has a presence in five countries and works in three more with the help of local consultants. He is a steering committee member of the Global Forum for Media Development, and an advisory panel member of the Knight International Journalism Fellowship programme administered by ICFJ. Mr. Panneerselvan, apart from being a regular columnist, is also a journalism teacher and is an adjunct faculty member of the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
Mr. Panneerselvan joined Panos South Asia in 2004 after having been the Managing Editor for the Sun Network, an Indian Television Network operating in five languages across 10 channels. As Managing Editor he was in charge of evolving and implementing editorial policy across the network, apart from managing a large team of writers, producers and reporters and coordinating between various departments, bureaus and languages — Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and English. Besides, he has hosted several incisive analytical programmes on South Asian affairs.
Before joining Sun Network, Mr. Panneerselvan was the Chief of Bureau for Outlook magazine, the English language weekly. His areas included economy, politics and neighbourhood relations. He has published more than 200 articles in various national and international publications. He has also directed a video film Making Trouble Where There Is None. This documentary, produced by Frontline magazine of The Hindu group, is about communal mobilisation under the cover of the Lord Ganesh festival in Chennai.
Mr. Panneerselvan has been covering Sri Lanka since 1984. Travelling extensively all over the island, his reports from Colombo, Jaffna, upcountry and Ampara were widely reproduced in the Indian and international media. He has presented more than 20 major papers on the question of devolution in various national and international seminars. As an advocate of global nuclear disarmament, he has written extensively on nuclear issues.
Mr. Panneerselvan holds a Masters degree in Psychology. He was a Reuters Fellow at the University of Oxford in 1998. About his role as executive director, Mr. Panneerselvan says: “After the May 1998 nuclear tests at Pokhran in India and Chagai in Pakistan, most observers said South Asia has become one of the most dangerous places to live. Panos South Asia will strive to make the region a peaceful and equitable one.”
Mr. Panneerselvan is an Indian national. He has lectured widely in the U.K. and the United States of America.
Expecting something must happen good on this auspicious Ganesh
Festival, and here is the news!!!After reading this news really felt
that my fever has gone, as i was ill since 2 days.As a profession i'm
Software Engineer only on nameplate posted onto my desk who don't know
the knowledge around him besides C,C++,Java but The Hindu taught him
there is a life beyond the AC desk who is struggling for his bread.The
articles that comes into Open Page are really motivating,helps not to
forget our traditional culture.My best wishes to Mr.A.S. Panneerselvan
for giant leap.
A warm welcome to ASP
CONGRATULATIONS to Mr.Panneerselvan ,i wish him all the best.
in the archives the comments are not available and this is time to suggest to the new Readers ' editor to restore this lack so that while studying archives issues comments are preserved .Hope something will be done in this regard
very happy to learn this announcement.
i wish mr.A.S.Panneerselvam, all the best in his new
assignment with "the hindu".
Congratulation to Mr. Panneerselvan on his appointment as The Hindu’s Readers’ Editor. I am proud to see him in this position and also proud to say that I was his classmate in his school days.
We want him to be more interactive with his readers. The easiest way is to open a Q&A column to reflect the views of the readers.
His presence must be felt and seen.
wishing him all the best.
wellcome sir... may we the readers of The Hindu benefit from your vast
knowledge. May you be a guide to many of the journalists and editors to
be responsible and indirect caretakers of the people and foster camaraderie in all sections of people .
Hi Friends at The Hindu as a Team with Panneerselvan on the 134th Founders Day celebrations,
I wish and Greet Many More Happy Returns of The day.
Perhaps, Reader's Editor is a position in Hindu which gives one an opportunity to feel the pulse of the readers almost online and a chance to respond to not only readers' responses but give the perception of the paper fast. It has been a wonderful experience going through the column all through and may I take this opportunity to thank the 'outgoing'RE and welcome Paneerselvan wishing him all success.
I wish him a grand success in his career.
I wish to be a employee of The Hindu but Failed. Atleast let me see many brave people like you to enter in The Hindu to Promote the Business and social Justice.
Now I take this Opportunity to wish you and your Team to do well in all attempts. Though you start your career on a Bharath Bandh - a friction Day your Team will do well.
Thanks.
Congratulations Mr.Panneerslevan!
I am quite overwhelmed by his impressional personality.In fact I wish to
become like him in near future.
Welcome Paneerselvan!
Could Mr. Panneerselvan please recommend to The Hindu to have Op-Eds on both sides (or more) of an issue. For e.g. we have a very topical FDI in retail issue that is dominating the headlines. As a reader, I wish I could get a "For" and "Against" perspective respectively. The Hindu, quite often, tends to be quite left-of-center in its Opinion pages with no avenues for counterbalance. A disappointingly egregious example would be its vociferous support of the RTE Act without giving any space opposing points-of-view. There are other examples one can cite including the paper's wholehearted endorsement of universal healthcare without examining its negative upshots (as seen in other countries) like excess bureaucracy, bloating costs, rationing of services, etc.
This reader wishes you all the best and hopes that you will truly reflect all readers' concerns, not just the ones that you may philosophically agree with (as ostensibly seen with the editorial staff).
..That is it !! What a non-sense communal mobilization under the Garb
of Ganesh festivel .??? Then what do you say about about various
Iftaar parties and politicians attending them // Ganesh festivel
originated in Maharashtra to anchor various movements for Indian
freedom ,to unite people under one banner . I again say the face of
EELAM struggle would have changed had there been Muslims to steer it
?? Is not ?? " The HIndu " has no right to speak on Human Rights &
Communal Agenda. It is an Institution founded by famous Honest
KKasturi Family .
Warm welcome Mr. Panneerselvan!
Media (print and visual) can do a lot in India. They can bring down a government. Throne someone. Can be the voice of poor and stricken. Can whitewash turncoats...
Choice is yours... Always stand on the right side. Be a voice of the deaf!!!
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