Prasthutha Foundation

Prasthutha Foundation is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization in India that promotes quality research and in-depth studies and is a platform for dialogue and conflict resolution in three verticals: Society, Science, and Spirituality It strives to bring together the best minds in India and across the globe to ideate on key national and international issues; promote initiatives that further the cause of peace and global harmony; monitor social, economic, and political trends that have a bearing on India’s unity and integrity; analyze the causes for social and ethnic conflicts leading to extremism and offer policy alternatives; interact with civil society and offer institutional support for exchange of ideas and interaction among conflicting groups; critique public policy and the working of democratic institutions and constitutional bodies; and evolve benchmarks for good governance and efficiency in public institutions. These are objectives that fall under a broad head called ‘nation-building’ and often come within the purview of universities and institutions of higher learning. Unfortunately, for reasons best known to those who manage them, these academic bodies have not been able to attend to these tasks. This neglect, it seems, is in some way responsible for the perceived failure of representative bodies and the prevailing inefficiency in the government sector. Prasthutha Foundation believes that many of these institutions – which are central to our democratic existence – cannot be expected to work better, unless academia, think tanks and civil society engage with them and critique them on a regular basis. Given its deep and abiding commitment to the deepening of democracy and to the emergence of a strong and self-reliant India, Prasthutha Foundation has embarked upon quality research in host areas in the hope that such studies will improve governance, strengthen national security, integrate India’s foreign policies.