India, May 24 -- The coronavirus pandemic has changed many things in the world most of which are going to stay. At least for a considerable period. Not only did it ensure that the wheels of globalisation come a full circle, it also brought several realisations on the part of the humanity at large. The most important was that conservation and not consumption be the model for a sustainable growth and viable economy. In all this turmoil Gandhi stands vindicated. His ideologies, which could better be termed as practices, and also his economic thought. We are back to the basics and, more importantly, understand why it makes a lot of sense. If all the effects of pollution that we callously inflicted on mother earth in the last 50 years could be...