GANDHIAN ENVIORNMENTAL THOUGHT

Abstract: Great sages come and go but their message lives on forever. One such Indian stalwart is none other than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He is beyond comparison and fondly referred to as the Father of the Nation for his belief in achieving India’s freedom through non-violent movement. Gandhi was a real visionary as he visualized the current environmental problems a century back itself. Among the many accolades that Gandhi has of being a lawyer, a revolutionary political leader and great thinker, saintly figure, humanist and pacifist, he was an environmentalist to the core too. Gandhi gave solutions to root out the problems and did not search for solutions to control it. His fervent appeal to his fellow countrymen was to imbibe plain living with simple consumption pattern. He realized the importance of living as a part of the total ecosystem around us