Invitation You are cordially invited to Baroda Management Association (BMA), at Guru Narayana Center for Leadership, 2nd Floor, Anmol Plaza, Opp. Mc. Donalds, Old Padra Road, Vadodara. Speaker : Prof. Dr. Amit Dholakia Topic : The Idea of Happiness Date : 21st March, 2014 (Friday) Time : 6:15 p.m to 7:15 p.m i.e. Approx 1 hour It will be an excellent knowledge enrichment opportunity for all participants. Kindly make it convenient to attend. Brief about the speaker : Prof. Dr. Amit Dholakia has done M.A., M. Phil., Ph.d. Presently Dr. Dholakia is Officer on Special Duty (Registrar) & Professor of Political Science Faculty of Arts, M.S. University of Baroda. ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: Dr. Dholakia was a Member of the Syndicate, M. S. University of Baroda (2006-2012) He is a Member of the Senate, Director of Communication Cell, Dean of Students, Faculty of Arts and Member of several Faculty/University-level committees He is also a Member of the managing committee of the primary section of Baroda High Schools PUBLICATIONS: A book, The Role of Mediation in Resolving India-Pakistan Conflict: Parameters and Possibilities (New Delhi: Manohar, 2005) A co-edited book, India and the Emerging World Order: Foreign Policy and Security Perspectives (New Delhi: Kalinga, 2001) A booklet in Gujarati, CTBT (Mumbai: Parichay Trust, 1999) About thirty articles and research papers in English or Gujarati periodicals and edited volumes RESEARCH AWARD: Received Kodikara research award for South Asian strategic studies from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, for the research project (2001-2003) on The Role of Mediation in Resolving India-Pakistan Conflict: Parameters and Possibilities INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS / ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES Summer institute programme on “The Making of American Foreign Policy”, South Asian regional workshop on “Defence, Technology and Cooperative Security in South Asia”, organized by Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Colombo and held at Kandy, Sri Lanka, September 1997 South Asian regional conference on South Asia Facing the New Millennium organized by Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Colombo and held at Ahungalla, Sri Lanka, Sept. 1999. International seminar on “Civil Society and Local Government”, organized by Friedrich Naumann Foundation at Theodore Heuss Academy, Gummersbach, Germany, August 2004. Brief about the topic : Happiness has many meanings and dimensions. Almost each individuals idea of happiness is different and unique. Happiness is something that everyone frenetically and unexceptionally desires but something that one rarely feels to have achieved. Indeed, the conscious and dogged pursuit of happiness is often the principal cause of the creation of unhappiness and sorrow for oneself and for others, since the elements that seem to constitute happiness in the popular imagination are not always harmonious and are often at conflict with each other. The ideas of gross national happiness and happy planet index have helped us in reaching quantitative and utilitarian understandings of happiness for the purpose of policy guidance. However, happiness has more to do with thoughts, emotions, attitudes and perceptions than with the existence of certain external conditions. Happiness has also very little to do with future. It is more about what one is - here and now.
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