Authors: Dr. Romana Ali, Dr. Sunita Kejriwal
Abstract: Ramkanta Bose Street, Kolkata- 700003. Gandhian’s principles hold profound implications for maintaining harmony and achieving sustainability in the present day. India is facing threats to its communal harmony due to differences based on languages, cultures, economic, social conflicts, and terrorism. Such intergroup conflicts manifest an absence of cohesion in the community which not only impacts the economic growth, social upliftment and political stability but also hinder the foundation of sustainable development. Thus, educating the youth for acting in a mature way for suppression of communal violence and promoting harmony with sustainable concepts is urgently required. Since youth comprise a large chunk of India’s working population. Therefore, teachers through their participatory role in the classroom can help in developing core values of morality, humanism, nonviolence and social justice which encourages intercultural pluralism and also envisions a future that is free from the threat of disharmony. Besides, practicing spirituality in higher education would create a workforce transcending ethnocentrism and egocentrism ushering communal harmony and peace.The study highlights the core principles of Gandhian philosophy as a roadmap to sustainability and spiritualism to develop harmony in community.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18439267
