Jun 26, 2008

Optimist India

Economist comes up with fascinating charts on the frontpage.

Today's chart plots major countries on suicide rate and happiness index axes. General trend is the negative corelation between the two. Obvious, no? India beats that trend, with low suicide rate as well as low happiness index.

Apart from religious reasons, India is that outlier which lives on hope of better tomorrow in spite of accepting that there is not much today to be happy about. Probably, hope is the (best) thing to be happy about.

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