South Asian Center for Reintegration and Independent Research (SACRIR) is a think tank

Think tank

A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

 fashioned forum dedicated to studies and researches on South Asian nations and matters pertaining to people, culture, society, history and politics. It was founded in Northwest Arkansas in Jan 2011 and later joined by young professionals and scholars from the U.S and India.

SACRIR is gradually gaining popularity as a South Asian thinkers' forum in the U.S, and has been published on various dailies and journals like the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell...

, Global Politician

Global Politician

Global Politician is an online magazine of politics that publishes analysis of current events, as well as interviews with politicians, government officials, diplomats, book authors and terrorists. It was founded in October 2004 and is based in New York....

 etc. In a recent (September 2011) interview on a local television channel of NW Arkansas, its founding member Ajoy Chatterjee defined SACRIR as 'a non-profit forum of like minded people who believe South Asia

South Asia

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...

is one, not necessarily in political terms'.