Understanding Happiness: An Explorative View

Saamdu Chetri, a pilgrim of love and compassion, was born in a cowshed in remote Bhutan. After working for 25 years in the private and development sectors and five years in the first democratically elected Prime Minister's Office as Head of Good Governance, he instituted the GNH Centre as one of its founding members and headed it for five years. In his 35 years of life's working journey, he has been teaching, consulting, and speaking at various international and national occasions on various topics, including in the House of Commons in the British Parliament, Senators of Philippines, among others, and dozens of universities and colleges in the world including India. He has many interviews with all kinds of media and wrote three books with several contributions to many books. Since December 2017, he is engaged as Visiting Faculty (Professor) at the Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur, India, and his mindfulness journey continues. He is a recipient of Lord Buddha Peace 2016 from Samata Sahitya Academy, and he is reflected in the 100 Prominent People of Modern Bhutan, 2008, in the book by Dr. C.T. Dorji. He is dearly referred to by BBC as a Happiness Guru.
Tanusree Dutta has been working as Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi. Prior to this, she has been working in other prestigious Institutes like the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Rajasthan, Banaras Hindu University, etc. Dr. Dutta had obtained her postgraduate and doctorate degrees from Banaras Hindu University and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She has research publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals, which have been cited in manuscripts and books of national and international repute. She also has her credit to an edited book entitled 'Bias in Human Behaviour' and a book on 'Neuromarketing in India: Understanding the IndianConsumer'. Apart from academics, she has also been actively involved in conducting various training programs and consultancy assignments for different companies.
Manas Kumar Mandal is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is also Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc, Bangalore. He was formerly Distinguished Scientist and Director-General of Life sciences in DRDO, India. He holds a Ph.D. degree in psychology from Calcutta University, India; completed his postdoctoral research as Fulbright Fellow, USA, and NSERC Fellow, Canada. As Visiting Faculty, Dr. Mandal completed his tenure at Harvard University, USA; Kyushu University, Japan; and Aachen University, Germany. Dr. Mandal specializes in the areas of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Sciences. He has his credit to 14 books and over 100 research papers in international and Indian journals of high repute. This research is citedin more than 300 international journals and books with over 5000 citations.
Priyadarshi Patnaik is a Professor at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, and Chairman of Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur. He is also Secretary of Nehru Museum of Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur, and Rector's Nominee of Technology Students Gymkhana, IIT Kharagpur. His areas of research include Relationship and Well-Being, Visual Communication, Music and Emotion, Communication and Culture, Media Communication, Translation, and Digital Humanities. He has authored and edited more than 14 volumes of text, reference, and creative work. He has a number of research papers, translations, poems, short stories, illustrations, and photographs in many national and international journals.

Saamdu Chetri，一位充滿愛與同情心的朝聖者，出生於偏遠的不丹一個牛棚中。在私營和發展部門工作了25年後，他在第一位民主選舉產生的總理辦公室擔任良好治理部門的負責人五年，並作為創始成員之一成立了GNH中心，並擔任該中心負責人五年。在他35年的職業生涯中，他在各種國際和國內場合教授、諮詢和演講，主題涵蓋廣泛，包括在英國國會的下議院、菲律賓參議院等，以及世界各地的數十所大學和學院，包括印度。他接受了各類媒體的多次訪問，並撰寫了三本書，並對多本書籍作出了貢獻。自2017年12月以來，他擔任印度卡哈爾古爾的IIT Rekhi幸福科學卓越中心的訪問教授，並持續進行他的正念之旅。他是2016年獲得的佛陀和平獎的得主，並在Dr. C.T. Dorji的著作《現代不丹的100位傑出人物》中被提及。他被BBC親切地稱為幸福大師。

Tanusree Dutta擔任印度管理學院（IIM）蘭契的副教授。在此之前，她曾在其他著名機構工作，如印度理工學院卡哈爾古爾、拉賈斯坦邦、瓦拉納西印度大學等。Dutta博士於2000年和2004年分別在瓦拉納西印度大學和印度理工學院卡哈爾古爾獲得碩士和博士學位。她在同行評審的國內和國際期刊上發表了多篇研究論文，這些論文已被國內外知名的手稿和書籍引用。她還編輯了一本名為《人類行為中的偏見》的書籍，以及一本名為《印度的神經行銷：理解印度消費者》的書籍。除了學術工作外，她還積極參與為不同公司舉辦各種培訓計劃和諮詢任務。

Manas Kumar Mandal是印度理工學院卡哈爾古爾的傑出訪問教授。他同時也是班加羅爾印度科學研究所（IISc）高級研究院的兼任教授。他曾擔任印度國防研究與發展組織（DRDO）生命科學部的傑出科學家和總幹事。他擁有印度加爾各答大學的心理學博士學位，並作為富布賴特學者和加拿大NSERC學者完成了博士後研究。作為訪問教授，Mandal博士在美國哈佛大學、日本九州大學和德國亞琛大學完成了任期。Mandal博士專注於神經心理學和認知科學領域，擁有14本書籍和超過100篇在國際和印度高水平期刊上發表的研究論文。這些研究在300多本國際期刊和書籍中被引用，引用次數超過5000次。

Priyadarshi Patnaik是印度理工學院卡哈爾古爾人文與社會科學系的教授，並擔任幸福科學卓越中心的主任。他同時也是卡哈爾古爾科技博物館的秘書，以及卡哈爾古爾科技學生體育館的校長提名人。他的研究領域包括關係與幸福、視覺傳播、音樂與情感、傳播與文化、媒體傳播、翻譯和數位人文學。他撰寫和編輯了超過14卷的文本、參考和創意作品。他在許多國內外期刊上發表了多篇研究論文、翻譯、詩歌、短篇故事、插圖和照片。