RETHINKING HUMANITY AND NEW SOCIAL VALUES IN INDIA: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF COVID-19

The process of globalization transformed the whole world scenario via changes in economy, politics, culture and social system. It has produced a phenomenon of the alienation of communication that has become the social reality within a timeframe. The cunning and inhuman behavior of individual has become the sign of this phenomenon. The growth of technology and globalization brought social isolation in the society. Diseases and environmental destruction have also become globalised due to the same. It also caused of a global pandemic namely COVID-19. With the initiation of the pandemic the intellectual communities analyzed its negative aspects and introduced a social distancing model to combat this pandemic. But this study found something apart from these arguments. This study found that some social values or ethics have come back in a new form. This analytical study seeks these new social values in the society and the state which emerged during the COVID-19 lockdown period. As a result, these new social values will help in making a civilized and scientific society in India.