Finding the secret sauce the British travel vlogger used in her content and took the Bangladesh travel vlogging sphere on YouTube by storm — Travel vlogs had never been my cup of tea on YouTube until I, a few months ago, bumped into the videos made by Carrie Patsalis about my home country, Bangladesh. During these months, I binge-watched the Bangladesh series of this British travel vlogger. Moreover, it was Carrie’s videos that introduced…

The measures taken in the UAE have made people talk about happiness a lot — Dr Louise Lambert is a registered psychologist from Canada and an associate professor at Canadian University Dubai. On my YouTube podcast, I interviewed her in 2022 about happiness in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). She did a study on the concept of happiness among Emirati and other Arab students a…

They had a head start in the pursuit of happiness long ago, without which they would not have been here today — The year 2022 was hectic for me. It was one of the happiest years in my 30s as well. In addition to my day job at a financial daily, I spent the entire year talking to academics and researchers from different parts of the world, especially the Nordic region, about…

Let the journalists do their job without fear. You may get a happy nation. — Jarno Liski has a type of freedom that Li Xinde does not have. While the freedom is a given for Liski, it is a privilege for Xinde, considering their respective countries. But it is a privilege that Xinde has almost no access to. …

Today is the fifth anniversary of our connection — My dear Halla Pihlaja Korpelin I have two hearts. I was born with one of them and acquired the other a few years ago. I now lead a double life where two identities intersect. …

Things do not make us happy. Experiences and connections do — It was not like Angela Maxwell wanted to leave behind some unhappy part of her life when she decided to walk around the world. “It was really that I felt compelled. I would even call it a spiritual calling. …

And I had it again this year. But I loved it the way it came. It was a rejection. It landed in my inbox from the New York Times, a prestigious name in the newspaper industry. …

He turns 56 today — I rediscovered myself 14 years ago when I fell in love with the English language. Then I was reborn after I met Jukka Tapio Blom in 2017 when I was in Finland. This Finnish man was my boss at a restaurant I worked in Finland’s capital, Helsinki. We did not…

Writing makes him the happiest man in the world despite being unmarried at 57 — Bruce Headlam did not reply to me. I emailed him on 2 May. The moment I clicked the “send” button, I had this feeling that he would not write back. Why should he answer my inconsequential questions? I asked him about Malcolm Gladwell’s happiness. …