Bhutan-The land of Happy People
Heavily inspired by the movie ‘Lunchbox’, as most of my wisdom comes from Bollywood, I set out for Bhutan- The land of Happiness. I do not like mountains. And it doesn’t get more mountainous than Bhutan. So I started my 10 day trip with violently throwing up all over – thanks to the gorgeous, but highly bendy road to our Thimpu Homestay. But all the while, my mental notebook was busily scribbling two kinds of evidence - 1. On gross national happiness 2. On being carbon negative. Here are the initial notes from those scribbles- 1. On gross national happiness. The people seemed very happy and constantly chewing fermented betel nut pan, Doma. I was beginning to look for a causal relationship between the two. I realised there was unemployment and everyone went to India for college. But they all came back. All men wore the ‘gho’ and women, ‘kira’. All houses followed the Bhutanese architectural style. There were photos of t...