Online prayer meet

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 2

The Department of Gandhian Studies, Panjab University, in collaboration with the Bodhicitta Centre, organised an interfaith and inter-religious online prayer meet here today.

An online special lecture by Panjab University Alumni Association member Suresh Misra on ‘Sustainable Lifestyle in a Pandemic World: A Gandhian Approach’ was organised.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Raj Kumar highlighted the importance of the day by explaining the history of the Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bhadur Shastri and their contribution to the freedom struggle.

In his address, Prof Nawal Kishore Ambasht, who started the pioneering work on ‘Tribal Education’ in the early 1966, said he was fortunate enough to see Gandhi ji in person while he was on move for a peace mission in Noakhali.

In his special lecture, Prof Misra said Covid-19 was the greatest humanitarian challenge to the world since World War II and it had been observed that this disease was spread by the rich but the poor were the most affected.