NALINI RAJAN

Nalini Rajan is Dean of Studies and Professor, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She has taken classes on secularism for her students over 20 years. She has a doctorate in Social Communication, specializing in political philosophy, from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She has written five books on political philosophy, including The Story of Secularism: 15th?21st Century and Religious Faith, Ideology, Citizenship: The View from Below (coauthor), three works of fiction, and edited six volumes on media studies. Her first novel, The Pangolin?s Tale, was longlisted for the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is General Editor of the series, Studies in Journalism (Orient Blackswan).