THE HAPPY TIMES

The Happy Times: Why the World Is Better Than the News Makes You Believe. What if the world is not becoming worse… What if we are simply becoming better at noticing what goes wrong? Every morning, millions of people wake up to headlines filled with conflict, fear, disasters, scandals, and uncertainty. Gradually, we begin believing that this is the complete story of humanity. But it isn’t. While negative headlines dominate our screens, scientists are curing diseases once thought incurable. Doctors are restoring sight to the blind. Engineers are building cleaner technologies. Teachers are transforming lives. Entrepreneurs are solving real-world problems. Communities are planting forests. Children are creating extraordinary innovations. Acts of kindness unfold every single day—often quietly, without ever becoming breaking news. In The Happy Times, Dr. Abhishek Gilara invites readers to rediscover a forgotten truth: the world has always contained problems. But it has also always contained people working tirelessly to solve them. Blending personal reflections, psychology, real-life examples, scientific insights, and practical wisdom, this book challenges one of the greatest misconceptions of our time—that being informed requires being overwhelmed by negativity. Instead, it introduces a powerful idea: become the Editor of Your Own Mind. Choose the stories that strengthen hope instead of fear. Choose progress instead of pessimism. Choose solutions instead of helplessness. Because the news you consume today becomes the mindset you live with tomorrow. And perhaps the happiest life is not built by ignoring reality… but by remembering that every day, somewhere in the world, humanity quietly becomes a little better than it was yesterday.