Relevance of Gandhian Principles in the Post Covid-19 World

  • Shweta Sharma
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  • Shweta Sharma

    LLM student at Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla, India

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Abstract

The planet earth faced one of the most severe health crisis ever recorded in the human history. The novel corona virus hit hard on the human population and engulfed the entire world regardless of any country or community. Though vaccines were being worked upon to control the spread of the virus and are now even being given to the people, but this pandemic left people to introspect on their lifestyle habits. Besides this the poor were more severely and harshly impacted due to this pandemic. During this catastrophic period, in order to seek an inspirational mindset, Mahatma Gandhi is one such personality whose thoughts have always been extremely relevant. He always preached to adopt a path of simple living high thinking which in the contemporary times is somewhere seem to be lost. This paper intends to focus on the thoughts and teachings of Gandhi which are extremely important in the present time and which can act as a guiding light in the post COVID-19 world order. Keeping in view the recent occurrences many of the warnings given by Gandhi have actually proved to be correct. His urge for cooperation and peace helped in dealing with the post COVID-19 scenario and extricated us from this contemporary impasse.

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International Journal of Law Management and Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 4610 - 4616

DOI: https://doij.org/10.10000/IJLMH.111043

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