Gross National Happiness

Synopsis

Bhutan is associated to the GNH: Gross National Happiness. Here, happiness supersedes “Product” and thus the national economy revolves around culture and spiritual values. The King forbids smoking and asks that the traditional garb be worn in public. Here, life peacefully follows its course. But how is it so? Wandering the streets of the capital, Timphu, we attempt to understand how the Bhutanese attain this seemingly effortless state of happiness…