People from teens to 60s are now ready to make their own documentaries. Visuals have always had a greater capacity to inspire, influence, inform, and motivate people than most other media. How do you document a video in the best way to tell a story? In the 3-day documentary workshop conducted by Swadeshabhimani Media Study...Read More

“Media study does not replace text. It broadens and deepens our understanding of texts.” Philip M. Anderson.Read More

Two seminars were organized by the University of Tubingen and the Oxford Department of International Development (University of Oxford) on June 6 and June 9, respectively, on the contributions of Vakkom Moulavi and the celebrated newspaper Svadesabhimani which he launched. These events were important milestones in raising his profile amongst international researchers and bringing his...Read More

14 Crisp and Brief Talks in 45 minutes Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust organised ‘Kaleidoscope Talks’ for college students across Kerala on 26 May 2023 at the Trust Hall. These were brief talks of 3 minutes duration using visual aids on the topic “Social Impacts of New Technologies”. Prof. Achuthsankar S. Nair, Dept.of Computational Biology &...Read More

Is the earliest known form of documentary cave painting? As he was discussing the background of documentaries, Amudhan R.P. posed this question to the audience. Undoubtedly, cave paintings serve as documentation of the events that took place. Therefore, the history of documentaries begins with cave paintings, followed by ancient paintings, modern paintings, and photographs. Now,...Read More

A consultation meeting was jointly organized by VMFT and Tata Institute of Social Sciences  (TISS) on 16th February 2023 at VMFT Hall, Thekkummood with the aim to design a series of education seminars on the topic  ‘Perspectives for Kerala’s School Education  – Shaping a Future with Social Justice.   Tata Institute of Social Sciences or TISS,...Read More

More than 80 undergraduate and postgraduate students attended two workshops organized  by the Swadeshabhimani Media Study Centre of the VMFT on 25-26 November, 2022.  The workshops critically examined the methods used by the mainstream media to shape public opinion, using the representation of migrant workers during the COVID-19 crisis as an example. Dr. Ram Bhat,...Read More

At a function organized at the K.M. Bashir Memorial Hall by VMFT,  Sri. V. N. Vasavan, Hon. Minister for Culture, Co-operation, and Registration released the Multilingual booklet on the life and times of Vakkom Moulavi, as well as “Media under the Lens, a research study report on the representation of migrant workers in regional media...Read More

The 15th K. M. Bashir Memorial Lecture and presentation of 4th Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust’s ‘Professor N. A. Karim Award for Outstanding Public Service’ (comprising of Rupees One lakh in cash, citation and memento) was done by Prof. V. K. Ramachandran, Vice Chairperson,Kerala State Planning Board at 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at...Read More

This is the first step in VMFT’s project to digitize the works of Vakkom Moulavi in order to make them more broadly available to the general public and researchers in India and abroad. The newspaper, ‘Svadesabhimani’ (commonly transliterated into English as ‘Swadeshabhimani’) was his first and most famous publication and occupies a key role in...Read More