Mukund Padmanabhan is the former editor of The Hindu (2016-2019) and The Hindu BusinessLine, a sister publication of the same group. He has written extensively on political, legal, and literary subjects. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Practice at Krea University, where he teaches philosophy and related disciplines. He was an Adjunct Faculty at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, where he taught media law and advanced writing to post-graduate students from all over Asia. The Great Flap of 1942 (2023) is his first book.