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Bhutan-The Happy Himalayan nation                                                                                                          -Aditya Reddy Have you ever wondered that a country’s growth would depend upon the happiness? Have you ever thought that the people can happily live without any e-gadgets in today’s contemporary world? If you’re wondering where such a place would exist, this country is right above us and it is the smallest neighbouring country.         The Land of Thunder Dragon – Kingdom of Bhutan – is a small monarch country which is located on the foothills of Himalayas and is sandwiched between two super nations- India and China. Even though the entire country’s GDP is less than 2billion$, in 1970s, the 4 th King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck believed an economic approach dehumanised the development process. He instead decided to focus on a concept that is called as "Gross National Happiness" or GNH. The development of a country

NOKIA’S COMEBACK: ONCE AGAIN “CONNECTING PEOPLE”                                                                                                                 -Kiran Gaur                 N okia is back in business with its new range of smartphones this year. Due to its downfall in the previous years, caused by the popularity of other leading smart phone brands, Nokia is tied with Microsoft. Since the clause with Microsoft is going to end in this year, Nokia grabbed this opportunity and decided to comeback in the market.                 More interesting about the Nokia’s comeback is the re-launch of Nokia 3310 with new exciting colours-white, blue, red and yellow. It retains its features that matters-durability, long battery life which lasts up to a month and of course, the snake game and the Nokia’s ringtone. It is slimmer and includes a 2.4 inch colour screen as well as a 2-mp camera. Its market price is $51(3500 rupees approx.). Other features include 16 MB total me

NEVER GIVE UP!!                                                                                     - Kiran Gaur                  “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters how you are going to finish. Are you going to finish strong? ” quoted by Nick Vujicic- founder, president and CEO of ‘Life without limbs’, an international motivational speaker, author, musician, actor and with hobbies including painting, swimming and fishing. A person with these qualities may be common but what makes it different and fascinating is a person with no arms and legs possessing them.                  Even when the thought of being disabled brings goosebumps to us, then what would be the state of mind of those people who go through it, who know the pain, who see the suffering and who live with it each and every day, each and every minute and each and every moment of their life. But