What drove me to write on this is two things - a post by my journo friend questioning the way we are living today and a related article that I read on happiness index and how India fares very poor in this , in the 117th place much below small countries like Bhutan. And I just cant resist sharing the pride that I had when my son's teacher had penned in the report card that he is a happy child - a remark that I really take more seriously than even the academics. And when we met in one of PTA, she did not forget to mention this too. As a mother of two, I had always been firm that academics will not be on top of my agenda and that I would rather see my child being a sensible thinker and being humane rather than a topper. Now coming back to being happy, happiness is a relative term and can there even be a yardstick to measure it? For me, happiness is measured by the smiles per day, and it helps me also do a quick che...
Chronicles of a commoner, in simple language