On the occasion of the World Health Day, as a part of a conference titled ‘Changing Paradigms in a Pandemic World’, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar addressed two million online attendees and world political leaders, global health experts, frontline workers, sportsmen and artists from a 100 countries on the current pandemic crisis and ways to overcome it.

Not having physical institutions of learning to go to as part of the school year has had adverse consequences – children have had to make do with online learning, a system that has been less effective for both younger and older children.

The Art of Living, in collaboration with Ministry of Tribal Affairs, launched two Centers of Excellence (CoE), aimed at empowering the tribal youth to become change agents for community development, strengthen grassroots democracy and promote natural farming.

While the success of any plan is dependent on its implementation, the right seeds are being planted. Perhaps the National Education Policy (NEP) will realize the dream of visionary educationalists.

Gurudev addressed the inaugural conference of “Shaping a new World together – Navigating the Wellbeing, Ethics & Business now and post Corona”, a World Forum for Ethics in Business initiative.