Dr. Taj Aluva (second left) receiving his PhD certificate from Dr. P Duraisamy, Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras, at the convocation ceremony held recently in Chennai, India.
Qatar-based media person and author, Thajudeen V. Aliar (aka Taj Aluva) has obtained the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from the University of Madras, India, recently.
Taj Aluva is employed at Qatargas Operating Company as Corporate Communications Specialist and has been pursuing a PhD in Journalism and Mass Communications (Comparative Literature as an inter-disciplinary major) since 2009. The title of his thesis was ‘A Comparative Study of the Role of Resistance Literature in the Nationalist Movements of India and Palestine with special reference to the works of Mahmoud Darwish and Vallathol Narayana Menon’.
He was awarded the PhD degree in the convocation ceremony held recently at the university campus in Chennai, India, by Dr P Duraisamy, Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras. The ceremony was officially chaired by the Governor of Tamil Nadu and the University’s Chancellor, Banwarilal Purohit.
Dr Taj Aluva is the president of Cultural Forum, a socio-cultural organisation of expatriate Indians in Qatar. He is an inspirational speaker and has authored a book Falapradamaya Jeevitham (Effective Life) in Malayalam which has already seen three editions.
Dr Taj Aluva was previously employed in Dubai Municipality as Principal Media Officer and was a staff reporter at The Gulf Today newspaper in Sharjah, UAE, and Times of Oman daily in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
