Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop

Leaders of the Hindu community worldwide released Bhumi Devi ki Jai! A Hindu Declaration on Climate Change earlier today. The Declaration was authored by the Bhumi Project and the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, with support from the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), in an effort to bring a Dharmic perspective to the global discussion of […]

Tens of thousands are expected to join a global meditation for peace on November 29th, 6:30a.m. PST over Thanksgiving weekend in Mexico City. The Huffington Post and Hoy TV (The Hoy Los Angeles, part of the Los Angeles Times) will simultaneously livestream the event to potentially unite hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide in the name […]

Universum, the well-known company in HR survey space has come out with Global happiness Workplace Index 2016. It surveyed 250,000 professionals in 55 markets to set country-level and industry-level benchmarks. The research company states that ‘employee happiness is a barometer of an organization’s overall health – as important to forecasting future innovation and growth as […]

Wataru Sato and his team at Kyoto University have found an answer to what happiness is from a neurological perspective. Overall happiness, according to their study, is a combination of happy emotions and satisfaction of life coming together in the precuneus, a region in the medial parietal lobe that becomes active when experiencing consciousness. People […]

Oxford Dictionaries announces the emoji, commonly known as ‘Face with Tears of Joy’, as its “Word” of the Year for 2015. The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a word or expression chosen to reflect the passing year in language. Every year, the Oxford Dictionaries team reviews candidates for word of the year and […]