Rashtram’s mission is to nurture ‘self-aware’ and ‘civilisationally assured’ public leaders – the Accelerator Programme is how we intend to do it.
Based on our campus in Delhi NCR, Rashtram Accelerator Programme is firmly focused on nurturing public leaders to solve the most pressing Indian and global problems. Accelerator is designed to instil a renewed sense of learning to help our future public leaders adapt quickly in this VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous).
If you’re a change-maker with deep devotion and drive to help rebuild this nation, this is the right programme for you. India needs more coherence amongst these three domains of public leadership for sustainable change. Apply for Accelerator and begin your journey in public leadership.
Learners will spend 34 Weeks on-campus with Faculty and additional 12 Weeks with Partner Organisations on Projects.
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Learners live on campus along with mentors and faculty for a continuous learning experience. They will focus on crystallising and accentuating their physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual intelligences.
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Public Leadership exists at the cross-section of public policy, governance, strategy, and physiological acuity, all fueled by Indic Knowledge Systems.
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Learners will study track-specific courses including sessions on fund-raising, political strategy, mass mobilisation, foreign policy, and data-driven research. They will be active participants in designing their projects, guided by their mentors.
Learn MorePhase I of Application Closes on 31 January, 2021.
For any queries, contact us on namaste@rashtram.org.
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Public leadership is the creative ability to harmonise binaries, bring coherence to the trikarana of thought, word and deed, thereby generating the perceptual acuity to imagine a larger vision, and the mastery to articulate it. By building the vision on the bedrock of Indic knowledge systems, which cradle the Dharmic values, the public leaders we nurture will be equipped to apply the IKS frameworks to solve the problems of the global commons.
Intellectuals and thought leaders in a society produce ideas that create and nurture Identity of a nation. From Kautilya and Confucius to Locke and Hegel, history is replete with examples of intellectuals whose ideas animated and birthed entire Nations. This is the role of Academic Leaders.
Learners in this track will go on to build careers in:
Political executives backed with the will of the people preside over the process of institutional securitisation which confers Legitimacy. From Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln to Mahatma Gandhi, this is the lesson we learn from all master architects. This is the true job of Political Leaders.
Learners in this track will go on to build careers in:
The life-blood of ideas and will need to be circulated through the entire body of the society through action. This prosperity is achieved through the moral compass that leaders from the community provide. From Narayan Guru to Acharya Vinobha Bhave, this is the role of Social Leaders.
Learners in this track will go on to build careers in:
Vision India Fellowship transformed into the Rashtram Accelerator Programme in 2020. Similar to Accelerator, the Fellowship was launched to incubate public leaders. In its 4 years of operations (2016 – 2020), we have incubated 25 individuals who have shown promise to lead in various domains of academia, politics, and civil society.
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“The Fellowship has given me the opportunity to research the dharmic worldview to design governance processes.”
“There is immense thrust on identifying and honing what one is good at and complete autonomy, support and resources are provided to fulfil that.”
“This programme propelled me in the right direction to create positive impact for the country and help proliferate our civilisational values.”
“Fellowship has been a journey – both within as well as on the outside, with every moment a learning or an unlearning.”
“This programme gives an environment by providing all needed support to grow as a leader in your respected field and work for India.”
“VIF fellowship made me contemplate what I wanted to achieve in life and what should be the course of action to achieve it.”
The Rashtram Faculty has been picked to offer our Learners a wide variety of knowledge and lenses to view the world with.
One of the Niyamas defined by Patanjali, Svadhyaya is the time provided for personal study, meditation, higher-level reflection, as well as performing practical tasks such as completing assignments and preparing for presentations and discussions.
Samvada refers to an elevated form of debate and discussion, where the objective is to uncover the truth and dispel doubts, rather than argue and win. Every day there will be time allocated for discussions that will be guided by our mentors. These sessions will help hone the skills and let the ideas take root in the minds of the learners.
Our traditions and culture still thrive across the length and breadth of this land – where the Gitopadesa was given, where the innumerable saints, poets, gurus live and realise the one, all-pervading truth of existence; that land must be experienced in its raw beauty and spirit. A short term travel programme will help the learners take in the spirit of our native land, which has given rise to the oldest, continually existing culture in the world.
Are you a future public leader of India?