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Mar 27, 2003

"We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well." --Thich Nhat Hanh

While the developed nations agonise over their GNP (gross national product) and we fret about the GST, "60 Minutes" reports of a place, perhaps the only place in the world, where the official government policy is GNH - gross national happiness. It's the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, where the government not only legislates for happiness, it also tries to protect its people from encroaching globalisation.