he drive from Ranchi to Hazaribagh in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand is only 65 miles, but it takes nearly three hours. We swerve to avoid schoolchildren chatting with friends and meandering down the highway, honk at cows to get out of the way, and accelerate past pickups reconfigured as makeshift transport vehicles overflowing […]

“Happiness. It is the crux of human existence. All of human philosophy is about understanding and finding happiness. Very few of us do. Our lives are spent in its pursuit, mostly with a mistaken understanding of what we want, and therefore, for most, it remains elusive. I think happiness comes from realising that you can’t […]