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Should happiness figure in a nation’s bottom line? And should the concept of Gross National Product be replaced by Gross National Happiness?

Recognizing problems attending a growth-driven economic sprint in other developing countries, in the early 1970’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to make his nation’s priority not its G.D.P. but its G.N.H., or gross national happiness.

Can someone exercise and still be a couch potato? That peculiarly modern question motivated a new study from Finland in which a group of healthy, physically active volunteers donned special shorts that measure muscular activity in the legs. The volunteers then went about their daily lives.

“Guru Nanak is to me a feminist,” says Sikh scholar Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. That’s why the Punjabi professor can’t accept how her religion has become so patriarchal; filled with “machismo” and a “warrior” mentality that often contradicts its original teachings.

Tension prevailed for hours in Rourkela College on Thursday after college authorities debarred a Sikh student from appearing in the university examination for carrying his 'kripan', a traditional weapon carried by members of the Sikh community.

Two weeks ago, Prabhu Nam Kaur and I offered a one day workshop to the Punjabi Community in Yuba City, California about the Shabad Guru, which is so close to the heart of many of the Punjabi Women. About forty women attended.

Her words and voice were more direct and strident than many in the Yuba City-area Sikh community are accustomed to hearing, but Kamal Kaur, 19, a small, lean figure in a dark track suit and deep blue turban, held several hundred in the Yuba City Sikh Temple rapt Sunday as she spoke out...