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Preface Continues....
Both the Left-leaning secular Socialists and the Capitulationist Right have had their innings, and are unlikely to regain the center stage. What remains today in the country is an ideological mishmash. Till a new ideological framework is designed and presented with clarity to the people, the present hybrid ideological ad hocism will continue. This confused state of affairs cannot steer the nation to new heights of economic development, a more cohesive nation, and world power status.
To research, propound, and propagate a new ideological framework that can unite the nation, make the people strive to global greatness and struggle for world power, the Centre for National Renaissance has been set up in New Delhi to be funded by the Naveen Hindustan Trust. My colleagues and I, who constitute the Centre’s Board of Governors, have an established and acknowledged record of dissenting from the past ideological framework of the nation. This dissent has sometimes taken the form of struggle and for this we have suffered: the state has denied us our due in our professional life. We also were denounced as conservatives or reactionaries. But we never wavered, convinced that the day will dawn when an alternative ideology of national renaissance or modern conservatives will be needed by the Country. The new millennium holds that promise. We need, therefore, to have a clear understanding of an agenda for renaissance.
At the present juncture of our history, if we are to pick up the thread of renaissance from where it had been snapped in 1947, and from where Swami Vivekananda, Maharishi Aurobindo and Mahatma Gandhi had brought it, we need first to define a new agenda, and then build a suitable vehicle to implement that agenda to its fruition. For that we have to be clear about the fundamentals of Indian identity, and of renaissance itself.
Is there a need for such an agenda? In the absence of a well-articulated and well-thought through agenda, there will always be in circulation, a defunct or a haphazard one.
to be continued....
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