Commemorative Speech by Dr. Sajitha Bashir (Executive Vice-Chairperson, VMFT)

The 16th K.M. Bashir Memorial Lecture was delivered on 1 September 2025 by Hon’ble Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, on the topic of ‘Fraternity in a Secular State: The Protection of Cultural Rights and Duties.’ The Memorial Lecture was held as part of the birth centenary celebrations of K.M. Bashir (1925–1990), a distinguished statistician, international civil servant, and visionary social thinker who founded the Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust (VMFT) in 1986.