Aravind has its own in-house communications division, composed of the publication and audio-visual departments, with state-of-the-art desktop publishing facilities, a video editing unit, projection facilities and a photography unit.

The publications division releases in-house newsletters, a journal (Illumination), patient information brochures, annual reports, and textbooks in ophthalmology for practicing ophthalmologists. It also produces ophthalmology slide sets for lectures and presentations. The audio-visual and photography departments are involved in photography and in the production of instructional videos on surgical procedures of the eye, nursing, housekeeping, maintenance and management.