The Rise is the most expansive and embedded global network of Tamil speaking entrepreneurs, investors, professionals, academia, researchers, artists and public intellectuals who believe in the ideals of shared prosperity, impactful collaborations, empathy, environmental stewardship and peace. We seek the friendship
and goodwill of all nations and people to lift ourselves as a globally respectable people and meaningfully contribute towards creating a better future for everyone on earth.
The Rise is a global organisation of Tamil entrepreneurs and professionals operating in more than 20 countries. While offering itself as an effective platform for business networking,
The Rise also pursues a mission to raise the global profile of Tamils as a cultural community, in the 21st century. The Rise holds “Aram” (அறம்) a Tamil word for uprightness, nobility,
fairness and empathy as the cornerstone of its purpose and functioning.
What makes The Rise different from other similar organisations is its larger purpose, to emphatically represent 21st Century Tamil aspirations.
It stakes a claim to resonate with the cultural, historical soul of Tamils. It posits “Thamizh Aram” as the strength that unites and harmonizes our conduct with each other. It’s a network to change the way Tamils look at the world, and the way world looks at Tamils. To rise as people worthy of global respect, friendship, and solidarity.
1. That all women, men and of varied genders are born equal, so are every being on earth.
2. That every person on earth is a friend, every place is like my home and all of us are part of a larger family.
3. That empathy is the best fruit of reason, knowledge and all human endeavors.
4. That no belief can match the real transformative power of human creative imaginations, hard work and unyielding perseverance.
5. That we will always be humble, dignified and generous in success.
6. 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.
7. 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.
1. 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 organizations.
2. Wherever we exist and operate we absolutely commit to abide by the existing laws of the land.
3. We shall never support or associate ourselves with organizations and ideologies that promote violence, hatred, exclusion and bigotry in the name of religion, caste, ethnicity, language, gender and political beliefs.
4. We hold Tamil as a unifying civilizational identity that reconciles the internal divisions of caste, religion, politics and class. We deeply believe and cherish Tamil as an ancient Civilization, over 2,000 years old. 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.
5. We commit our collective knowledge, competencies and moral resources to be used by humanity and global agencies in any situation beneficial for this world.
For more information on The Rise Global initiatives, please visit tamilrise.org
