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Vision, Aim and Objective

The AIMS is envisioned with the aim to train and shape highly skilled professionals for the burgeoning video, television and advertising industry by providing the state of the art facilities to its students. The institute’s broad mission encapsulates the need to impart a holistic education having a sound amalgam of theoretical and practical learning. It aims to stimulate the creative potential of its students and to cultivate a scientific temper for probing social events. On the solid foundation of latest research in the field of media and communication.......


Advisory Board


Prof. K N Panikkar

historian and social commentator, former Vice- Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya University, Kalady, Kerala, is an established historian of international repute. An outstanding academic luminary, he holds prestigious Visiting Professorships in many Universities in India, Europe and America.

Mahesh Bhatt

a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed art parallel films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam and Naam. In 1987 he set up his own banner Vishesh Films. He is one of the most recognised film directors of the Indian film industry.

Siddharth Varadarajan

a well known journalist. He works for The Hindu as its Strategic Affairs editor. After studying economics at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, he taught at New York University for several years before joining The Times of India as an editorial writer in 1995. In 2004, he joined The Hindu.

Tarun J. Tejpal

a journalist and publisher. He has been an editor with the India Today and The Indian Express groups, and the managing editor of Outlook. He has also written for several international publications, including The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times and Prospect. In March 2000 he started Tehelka. In 2001, Asiaweek listed Tejpal as one of Asia’s 50 most powerful communicators, and BusinessWeek declared him among 50 leaders at the forefront of change in Asia.

Dr. Agha Ashraf Ali

a celebrated academician, remarkable teacher and a philosopher. A professor, a scholar, a man of ideas, Dr. Agha Ashraf Ali combines sufi school of thought of human love and glory with the ethos of modern education. He has heavy contributions in the field of education.

Gauhar Raza

a scientist by profession, is a leading Urdu poet, social activist and documentary film maker engaged in popularizing the understanding of science. An electrical engineer by qualification, Raza received his M. Tech from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. For the past 25 years, Raza has worked in the area of Communications He is also experienced in all aspects of video production, planning, directing, post-production work, and dissemination. He has produced 30 video documentary films during the past 20 years.