Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (Jan 2023)

”Vasudaiva kutumbakam-one earth, one family, one future: “- India's mantra for a healthy and prosperous earth as the G20 leader

  • Sunil K Raina,
  • Raman Kumar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_254_23
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. 191 – 193

Abstract

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India is a civilization, not just a country, nation, or government. Taking over the leadership of G20 by India, at a time when the world is battling pandemics, war, energy and climate crisis, and resource restriction is not just appropriately suited politico-economically but socio-culturally as well. COVID-19 proved that the unbelievably diverse world was too complex to be packed into a utopian hold-all one size fits all ideas. However, the fact is that COVID-19 may only have uncovered the crisis, which had been in the making for the latter part of the last century and extending into the current. India's leadership of G20 is therefore a window of opportunity for a more sustainable worldview as the ideas are coming from a civilization with a long history of acceptance of the entire world as one family- Vasudaiva Kutumbakam.

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