Nalini Rajan has a doctorate in Social Communication (specialising in political philosophy) from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Her academic publications include ‘Secularism, Democracy, Justice – implications of Rawlsian principles in India’, Sage, 1998, and ‘Democracy and the Limits of Minority Rights’, Sage, 2002. Her edited volume, ‘Practising Journalism – values, constraints and implications’ was published by Sage earlier this year. She is presently working on the second volume of ‘Practising Journalism’, as well as on an edited volume on ‘Culture and the new digital technologies’ for Routledge Publications. Her fictional work, ‘A Pangolin’s Tale’ will be published shortly by Tara Press, a subsidiary of India Research Press, New Delhi. Dr. Rajan is Associate Professor at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.