Dr. Francis Karackat

The winner of Shalom Media Award in July 2019 for the best inspiring writer in Malayalam, is the Principal of Don Bosco Arts & Science College, Angadikadavu, affiliated to the University of Kannur in Kerala. He completed his Doctorate in Journalism on ‘Ethics in Newspaper Journalism in Kerala’, with Dr. J.V. Vilanilam, the former Vice-Chancellor of Kerala University as his Research Guide, from the University of Kerala. He served as the Chairman of Board of Studies for Journalism and Mass Communication in Kannur University for two terms and pioneered the department of journalism in Kannur University with the postgraduate programme in journalism at Don Bosco Arts & Science College Angadikadavu. He qualified UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1996 and was the Head of the Department of Journalism at Don Bosco Arts & Science College, Angadikadavu for eleven years. He was in The Hindu newspaper and in the PTI (Press Trust of India) news agency in Thiruvananthapuram for a short stint, and has been the Chief Editor of Don Bosco, a widely circulated, popular, secular magazine in Malayalam, for eighteen years. He is the author of 32 books, all of them on themes across-the-board, and bestsellers. He had been to France, Thailand, Italy and Rome for International Conferences. Dr. Francis Karackat is a Catholic Priest of Don Bosco.