The pursuit of happiness: Mapping mental well-being is a wasteful exercise

Given the context, the Indian government should be complimented for resisting the temptation to embark on a project to map Gross Domestic Happiness

If global rankings are anything to go by, it is easier to do business in India than to be happy living here. In November last year India vaulted 30 places up the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings, thanks to some hard negotiation put in by our government. But the Ides of March 2018 brought sad tidings of India’s performance in the latest World Happiness Index, a ranking by another multilateral institution, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN). The country that has bequeathed to the world the uninhibited joys of Bollywood song and dance, the science of