At the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic shocked the entire world and India was no exception. The pandemic disrupted every domain of human life, and this has led to different adjustments in different aspects of life. In response to this pandemic, various countries imposed mandatory lockdowns in their respective countries. The government of India also ordered a nationwide lockdown, limiting the moment of 1.38 billion people in March 2020. This lockdown had a distinct nature of implication for every section of Indian society, be it migrant labour, health department staff, students and others. Students across the country were bound to remain in their houses as the educational institutions were in complete shutdown.
In this context, this paper aims to examine the understanding of leisure among Undergraduate students and try to find out whether the recent pandemic had reshaped their understanding of leisure or not. Although the concept of leisure and youth is not new, the context in which these two concepts are examined is new and it offers us to look back at already existing concepts from a new perspective
The area of this study will be Lucknow city in India, which was badly affected by the consecutive waves of the pandemic. Densely populated demography made the city more vulnerable in comparison to others. Because it is also a hub of educational institutions in Northern India; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students living then in Lucknow, was much higher than in other cities. This offers an opportunity to investigate the responses of the students, in terms of leisure activities while offering an insight into the sociology of leisure.
