The RISE Beliefs & Values
Beliefs: The Rise exists, operates and rests on the bedrock of its belief in Tamils continuity as a civilization and practicing ARAM based values.
Values: The Rise member is called upon to internalize these ARAM based values and exult in their inherent majesty.
- Universal Equality: That all women, men and varied genders are born equal, so are every being on earth.
- Global Kinship: That every person on earth is a friend, every place is like my village and all of us are part of a large family.
- Rational Empathy: That empathy is the best fruit of reason, knowledge and all human endeavours.
- Human Ingenuity: That no belief can match the real transformative power of human creative imaginations, hard work and unyielding perseverance.
- Humility in Success: That we will always be humble, dignified and generous in success.
- Ethical Wealth: That ethical wealth making is supremely noble, but deploying it for common good is an adorable spiritual trait and the very purpose of the pursuit of wealth making.
- Virtue over Bigotry: That love, kindness and such good virtues are our best ornaments whereas hatred and bigotry in the name of religion, caste, language and nationality are cancer of the soul.
The RISE DECLARATIONS
- UN Alignment & Global Priorities: We commit ourselves to abide, and be guided by the tenets and priorities defined by the community of nations represented by the UN and its organisations.
- Respect for the Law of the Land: Wherever we exist and operate we absolutely commit to abide by the existing laws of the land.
- Rejection of Violence & Bigotry: We shall never support or associate ourselves with organisations and ideologies that promote violence, hatred, exclusion and bigotry in the name of religion, caste, ethnicity, language, gender and political beliefs.
- Tamil Civilisational Identity & Global Friendship: We hold Tamil as a unifying civilisational identity that reconciles the internal divisions of caste, religion, politics and class. We deeply believe and cherish Tamil as an ancient Civilisation; we are more than 90 million Tamil speaking people spread around various parts of the world, that we are a cultural nation without a sovereign state and hence we seek the friendship, grace and support of all nations and people on earth to protect and advance our language and culture, and our collective existence as a cultural community.
- Humanitarian & Disaster Mobilisation: We commit our collective knowledge, competencies and moral resources to be used by UN and such other common global agencies in any emergency or disaster situations in any part of the world.