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A.S. Panneerselvan

A.S. Panneerselvan is fellow at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai and head of its Centre for Study in Public Sphere. Earlier, he was the Readers’ Editor (an independent internal news ombudsman) of The Hindu, for nearly a decade. Apart from being a regular columnist, he is also an adjunct faculty member of the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.

Panneerselvan is the author of Karunanidhi: A Life, published in 2021 by Penguin Random House. He was conferred the G.U. Pope award by the Government of Tamil Nadu for his literary and journalistic contributions. He was the head of the jury for the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature.

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	Karunanidhi: A Life 4.34 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.”
― A.S. Panneerselvan, Karunanidhi: A Life

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“It was not that there was no good human being among the elites of my place. But their ideas of correcting the mistakes were akin to applying perfume to cover up the smell of a deeply rotten wound. They could never understand the humiliation and social ostracism. Only a person subjected to humiliation can think of performing a surgery to get rid of the gangrene and not indulge in a cosmetic cover-up. This idea dawned on me during those three years of music class in Thirukkuvalai,’ says he.”
― A.S. Panneerselvan, Karunanidhi: A Life

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“One of the best lessons he taught me was not to be a mere accumulator of information but a scholar who can contextualize any information within the larger sociopolitical canvas.”
― A.S. Panneerselvan, Karunanidhi: A Life

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