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The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication astatine Osmania University marked a large infinitesimal successful its past with the inauguration of the Sarwat Hussain Digital Media Centre.
The centre was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor Kumar Molugaram astatine the University College of Arts and Social Sciences. The state-of-the-art Digital Media Centre has been established with cutting-edge instrumentality for integer contented creation, including 2 high-end nonrecreational cameras and a customised Apple Studio machine system.
The equipment, worthy astir ₹20 lakh, was donated by Vidya Bhandarker successful representation of her precocious spouse, Sarwat Hussain, an alumnus of the department. Sarwat Hussain pursued his Bachelor of Communication and Journalism (BCJ) and Master of Communication and Journalism (MCJ) astatine OU during 1987-89.
He began his nonrecreational vocation astatine ICRISAT, wherever helium worked for 16 years, earlier joining the World Bank successful 1992. Over the adjacent 25 years, helium roseate steadily successful the organisation, yet retiring successful 2017 from the World Bank office successful Washington, D.C., arsenic caput of Communications for the Agricultural Global Practice.
Recalling her husband’s journey, Ms. Bhandarker noted that entree to prime acquisition enabled him to turn professionally astatine ICRISAT and that the BCJ and MCJ degrees from Osmania University gave him the instauration to participate the World Bank and substance his meteoric emergence implicit the adjacent two-and-a-half decades.
“The tone of giving backmost by alumni successful the U.S. is thing we some admired deeply. We felt this was thing we indispensable bash for Osmania University arsenic well,” she said, calling upon OU alumni to reconnect with their departments and lend to their growth.
Satish Thalladi, Head of the Department of Journalism, said the Centre represents the Department’s committedness to evolving with the times and embracing integer storytelling.
Faculty members and students hailed the inaugural arsenic a timely and meaningful publication that strengthens Osmania University’s journalism acquisition portion honouring the enduring bequest of a distinguished alumni.
