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A six figure job, a trophy spouse, an earth-shattering romance – we certainly think all these things will make us more happy – and isn’t happiness what we all seek and hunger for?

Yet listen to this: “There is nothing that you have to get, do, or be in order to be happy. I repeat, nothing. In fact, happiness is your innate nature. It is hardwired into your being, It is part of your DNA. It is always with you.”
These words of wisdom come not from some spiritual text or soothsayer but from Dr. Srikumar S. Rao, the very practical and philosophical professor who has made happiness an achievable goal…

Does IIT Madras have answers to New York City’s energy dilemma?

Three students Aashish Dattani, Sriram Kalyanaraman and Vinayshankar Kulkarni were the big winners in Mayor Bloomberg’s NYC Next Idea Global Business Plan Competition, winning over teams from ten leading business and engineering schools in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The criteria were for the business concepts to have a connection to NYC and be commercially viable.