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In this edition
Celebrating Earth Day:
Image credit: Terra/ASTER/NASA and NASA Earth Observatory
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Gross Global Happiness (GGH)
Gross
National Domestic Product (GDP) has long been used as an yardstick
to measure a nation's economy. GDP is a financial indicator which
reflects a country's capital growth and not it's human growth. So,
how can a country measure it's human growth? Are people happy? Has
the society progressed or regressed during this growth? Are the
people feel excited or exploited?
Recently, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon advocated
the idea of introducing a "Gross Global Happiness (GGH)"
indicator to measure the happiness and satisfacation of people across
the world. I believe this is a novel suggestion. We need oracles
like him to stop the capitalistic juggernaut, otherwise it will
turn the whole human race into transaction machines. Day by day
millions of humans across the globe are signing up for this transaction
economy to improve their wealth and splendor. Unfortunately, wealth
and splendor does not bring complete happiness. In fact, most of
the rich countries rank poor on the global happiness survey.
In a school, when a teacher asked, "what
you wanted to become when you grow up?" a student wrote "I
want to become happy!" As you can guess, the answer was not
well received by the teacher and the student was graded poorly.
Did we forget what Aristotle said, "“Happiness is the meaning
and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
This does not mean every human should lead a hedonistic life but
strive to view the life in a different perspective.
So, it is a right call by Ban Ki-Moon to bring this topic into the
limelight. The only country which measures the happiness of its
people is Bhutan. In early 1970, Bhutan introduced "Gross National
Happiness (GNH)" indicator to measure the quality of people's
life. Recently United Kingdom is toying around with a similar idea
named "National Well being" measure. Let us hope this
is the harbinger of new ideas to improve the quality of human life.
In the mean time, take it easy, feel happy and lobby for a GNH or
GGH measure!
In this issue, we have picked contents
to make you feel relaxed and good. Kick up your heels, read, enjoy,
share and take it easy!
- In the Brain-tickler category:
- Titanic: Century of gripping emotions. Test your awareness
about the epic disaster.
- In the Health Topic section:
- Learn about Autism in the article "Attention to Autism
..."
- Learn about the recent news about the rising cases of "Melanoma
- Skin Cancer in young womens".
- In the English Song category:
- Listen to our best song picks for 'Feel good' theme.
- Listen to the picked songs continuously with our Jukebox!
- In the Seriously Funny section:
- Watch the funny video "Watch before you help!"
- Read the humor, "My husband is missing ... "
- Read the humor, "Urgent meeting ..."
- In the Surfboard section:
- Read the thought "Disease is contagious.. How about
cure?"
- In the Tamil Picks section:
- Enjoy the 10 Tamil songs picked out of 20+ songs we reviewed
for 'Take it easy' theme.
- new Anniversary
Special: Enjoy the video picks continuously, on-demand
in our new video channel.
- Listen to the 10+ best songs for 'Take it easy' theme.
- Read the poem picks "Nagaichuvai" and "punnagai
poo" in the Tamil poem section.
- View our recommended tamil movie - "Mounaguru"
- review for this month.
- In the Recipe Spot section:
- Learn how to make Basil Chicken Thai Fried rice at home.
- Nuggets:
- Don't miss to reflect on the thought and humor nuggets.
- Doctor, what are my odds of getting better - in Editor's
desk section
- A complaining customer? No worries! and Swimming is good
for your figure - in Health section
- Girls are inclined to marry men like fathers ... - in Surfboard
section
- Everyone is busy - in Reader's footprint section
- Want to become a celebrity? - in Your feedback section
- Get Inspired by watching the video "Winning
is a habit" by Vince Lombardi.
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the worried patient.
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Good News, One hundred per cent Recovery!” replied the
physician. “Medical
records show that nine out of every ten die of this
disease. Since, my previous nine patients have died
and you are my tenth case you will get better and recover."
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