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India the land of the 'Sapt Sindhu' the seven sacred rivers is the cradle to an ancient civilization.

On the threshold of the twenty-first century, India is the world's largest democracy, It's gross domestic product ranks fifth in the world. The nation has registered notable progress over the last few decades in fields ranging from agriculture, healthcare, science and technology etc. Our progress in space research and information technology is perhaps the fastest in the world.

Inspite of all this, India suffers from an image crisis. Inspite of being one of the ancient civilizations and land of great heroes, India is rarely looked at with due respect in the developed nations. Our unimpeachable record of democratic traditions notwithstanding, even political scientists and researchers do not attach requisite importance to the fact that India is one of the largest and also a long surviving democracy. Despite a large number of brilliant engineers and technocrats, thousands of them dominating the software sector, primarily in the Silicon Valley - our scientific achievements have gone largely unnoticed. Events like nuclear explosion at Pokhran cause concern for the commoners in the western world because they believe that a country with millions of illiterates will push the world community to the brink if these weapons land in the hands of 'ignorant people'.

The image of India as the land of ignorance, illiteracy, hunger, ill-health and socio-political tension has affected us in several ways. First and foremost, in the eyes of majority of the thinkers and opinion makers world over, India does not enjoy a place of pride. This has affected the overall marketability of India. India fails in establishing itself as a rising super power, an economic giant of the days to come and citadel of democratic values. Among other things, this negative image has greatly affected the flow of foreign capital to India. It has deterred many NRIs who wanted to resettle in India and kept thousands of enthusiastic tourists at bay.

This image, which at best is just one side of the coin, is largely the creation of the print, electronic and now the cyber media, which unfortunately, has failed to project the positive aspects of the country. In the process, while India's image as an 'area of darkness' has got further firmed up, the areas of brightness, - and they are not in small numbers - continue to be neglected.

It is on this background, that Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini has decided to launch a webjournal i.e. 'Brightindia.org'.

OBJECTIVES:

'Brightindia.org' project aims at

1. Disseminating relevant information, with details about all that is very positive and optimistic happening in India.
2. Focussing non-governmental efforts in areas like infrastructural development, information technology, rural development, water conservation, conservation of forests and preservation of ecology.
3. Critically examining governmental efforts for overall development and focussing on major policy shifts while highlighting all the positive aspects of the same. Also bringing in experiments in administrative reforms and providing hassle-free governance into focus.
4. Arresting misindormation campaigns about India and thereby saving global community from being misled. This will also help getting rid of the misperceptions about India world over, which we experience occasionally.

Care will be taken while achieving all the above mentioned objectives of this project that this project does not become yet another publicity device, tomtoming whatever the government is doing.

Being an Indian has nothing to do with his current place of residence or settlement. Indian is more to do with the state of mind; it means a set of noble values imbibed into each Indian from the time of his birth. He treasures these values consciously or subconsciously to guide him, throughout his life.

MANAGEMENT OF THE WEBSITE:

A five-member team of experienced Journalists, drawn from mainstream media, will be monitoring this project in their capacity as members of the Advisory Board. Primarily they will ensure that the project does not appear to be an advertising journal or a mouthpiece of non-profit organizations. This Advisory Board will also analyze the feedback received from the visitors of the Website and make the entire project effectively catering to the information needs of the global community. This Board will also decide upon how best this project can arrest the disinformation campaign about India, occasionally indulged into by interested parties.

Under the supervision of the Advisory Board, a five-member board of Editors will be working on this project on a day-to-day basis. Apart from one Principal Editor and one Technical Editor, there will be three Editors looking after gathering of information, editing the same and presenting it in an attractive manner.

The project will prove to be participative, with considerable scope for interaction to the visitors. The Website will have a Visitor Book, and will also provide for linkages with all the relevant websites.

BOARD OF EDITORS

E-Mail: tejaswi@brightindia.org,
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