World Happiness and Indian Philosophy

Holi in Vrindaban — Wikimedia Commons

As the exuberant celebrations of the ‘Holi’ festival last month were dying down, a slight dampener came in the form of the release of the ‘World Happiness Report 2023’. The report authors managed to rank India 126th out of 136 countries surveyed, far behind countries such as Pakistan (108) and Ukraine (92). Going further, the authors label India a ‘weak state’, meaning that -

“they are politically…