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Indiaright.org is owned, managed, and edited by the Centre for National Renaissance (CNR). The CNR has been founded by the Naveen Hindustan Foundation.

The CNR shall promote an alternative ideology for building a new India that is a global democratic force based on the redefined concepts of secularism, nationalism, and internationally competitive market economy.

Background

The current opinion-making and intellectual apparatus of the country is in the hands of people who are essentially pro-Left by training, instinct, conditioning, and in temperament. Anyone differing from their worldview and mindset are maligned and ostracized.

Core Belief

We believe that the ideals of Enlightenment, especially human freedom, are in consonance with the ethos and principles of India. In fact, having faith in the ancient message of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (‘The world is a single family’) that adorns the doorway to the Central Hall of India’s Parliament, we do not consider the Enlightenment as foreign or Western; we believe in its universalism; it as is as relevant for India’s Renaissance today as it is for the West. The twain can meet.

Objectives

The CNR has been founded to articulate, promote, and propagate an alternative ideology in all spheres of India’s public life and civil society, in order to fill his vacuum in India’s public discourse. The CNR holds the following beliefs which it shall work vigorously towards promoting and realizing:

• That India can make rapid economic progress and become a developed country only through more and more properly sequenced steps towards a globally competitive market economic system, which requires undertaking more radical reforms of liberalization, privatization, governance, and globalization.

• That India’s manufacturing sector and human capital requires access to the markets of the United States and its allies, especially in transfer of technology, induction of new innovations such as IT, nanotech, and procuring alternative energy sources. This objective has concomitant political implications which must be accepted as essential to nation building and development.

• That to secure a peaceful environment for steady and rapid progress, India must build strong security ties with her neighbors including China and Pakistan, and with those countries which India has no intrinsic clash of interests, such as Israel, and hence restructure India’s foreign and defence policies to meet those goals.

• That to develop a strong and coherent concept of Indian identity, to arrive at defining characteristics of an Indian, based on the nation’s ancient but durable roots and modern goals inspired by religious and cultural renaissance, free from obscurantism and foreign imposition.

Proposed Activities

• Carrying out and sponsoring conferences, studies, and surveys of leading and upcoming scholars from universities and academies on public issues and publishing the studies as the Centre’s monographs.

• Publishing the research published under the Centre’s auspices in a quarterly journal and occasional papers, which will serve as a vehicle for India’s alternative ideology for national renaissance.

• Media accountability conducive to a vibrant democracy will be an integral part of the Centre’s research. For this, media watch, freedom of information, and libel law reform will be the focus of the research.

• The Centre seeks to forge ties with other think-tanks, institutes, political groups, non-political organizations, international Rightwing and conservative foundations of the Indian diaspora bodies, etc.

Board of Governors

Chairman

Subramanian Swamy, Ph.D. (Harvard), Minister of Commerce & Law (1990-91); Faculty, Harvard University; Professor of Economics, IIT, Delhi (1971-91)

Members

• Arvind Chaturvedi, Professor, Indian Management Institute, Gurgoan, Haryana, India

• Ravi Shanker Kapoor, Senior journalist and author

• Jitendra Kumar, Ph.D. (Berkeley), CEO, Energy Technical Consultants Inc, Washington DC, US

• Kapil Malhotra, Director, Vision Books, New Delhi

• MD Nalapat, Professor of Peace Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka

• GPC Nayar, Chairman, School of Communication & Management Studies (SCMS) Group, Kochi, Kerala

• MN Panini, Former Professor of Sociology, JNU, New Delhi

Centre for National Renaissance (CNR)

A-77, Nizamuddin East, New Delhi 110013
Ph: (91 11) 24353805
Fax: 24357388
Email: editor@indiaright.org