varalakshmi moganty

Sustainable development has an imperative value. It is not associated with a mere raise in the purchasing capacity. Human values help sustenance of life lived in quality terms. These are the values people respected and observed from generations by historical persons, families, and nations. Values like dharma (justice), satya (truth), karuna (kindness), dana (charity), samapatti (sharing of one’s prosperity), dhairya (bravery), swatantra (liberty), and swarajya (self-rule) are some eternal human values which really help people’s lives and sustenance of human societies. History evinced how certain people adhered to these values and saved nations from hunger and slavery. Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela not simply remained in history but inspire even today. Yet, we live in a world of economic development departing ourselves to value-linked culture. Children are also being taught and brought up in this world of corporate education a...

The term development in modern times is evaluated in terms of industrialization, increased trade, and economies of nations that compete with each other. It is true that the process of industrialization provided more food, more clothing and shelter for more number of people. But it is also true that most nations lost their identity, nativity and essential culture and traditional-wisdom-practices in the process of industrialization, urbanization and due to higher form of globalization. For, it was the tradition of people and nations once upon a time to see that they advance themselves along with others around.  Today we reached a stage where the competitions in development lead to the death or deprivation of individuals and states as against the arrogance of affluence of a few people and states. This paper aims at evaluating the relevance of Gandhi’s ideas of non-possession, bread-labour, economic equality and ideas on socialism within the back drop of significance of development based on norms and human values, and changing perspectives of development