Tag: Happiness Quotient

By M. Rajaque Rahman, It does crush the pride of a nation to find itself ranked as low as 133rd in a global ranking of happiness. While it's debatable whether something as subtle as happiness can be plotted on the basis of gross factors such as income and life expectancy or intangible values like social support and generosity, we cannot brush aside the fact that we are ranked much unhappier than our counterparts in terror-ravaged Pakistan (80) or poverty-stricken Somalia (93) and Ethiopia (119). Interestingly, the 11-place decline from the preceding year...