India’s first World Happpiness Summit concluded in Bengaluru, bringing together personalities from entertainment, entrepreneurship, spirituality, wellness and social leadership. The day-long event explored happiness through Pleasure, Peace and Purpose and concluded with a collective resolve to make Bengaluru the world’s happiest city.

Hyderabad: India’s first World Happpiness Summit concluded in Bengaluru, drawing a full-day audience into a conversation the country rarely pauses for: what does it truly take to be happy?

Hosted by Happpy AiR – Atman in Ravi, the Happpiness Ambassador, the summit brought together voices from entertainment, public life, entrepreneurship, spirituality, wellness and social leadership, and closed with a collective resolve to make Bengaluru the world’s happiest city.

Positioned as India’s first World Happpiness Summit, the day-long gathering was built around the idea that lasting happiness rests on three pillars: Pleasure, Peace and Purpose, the three Ps that give the brand its distinctive spelling.

The morning session opened with the lighting of the lamp and an invocation, followed by Dr Kiran Bedi on the Fundamentals of Happiness and Arjun Kapoor on The Secret of Happiness. A panel on Success and Happiness brought together Govind Mahtani, Shareen, Nikhil Kamath and Hema Sardesai, while a second panel explored the Manifestation of Happiness through Attraction with Dr Amiett Kumar, Tarun Mishra, Rohit Khandelwal and Bhupendra Singh.

Dr Saamdu Chetri, a pioneer of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness philosophy, offered a global perspective on measuring wellbeing over wealth. The afternoon carried the momentum forward with Sonu Sharma on How to Be Happy Every Day and Aisshwarya DKS on The Science of Happiness.

A panel on The Art of Being Happy featured Sruthi Hariharan, Preetika Rao, Archika Sudhanshu, Dr Aadhyaa Kumar and Renuka Goswami. Bringing the marquee sessions to a close, Shilpa Shetty spoke on The 3 Keys to Eternal Happiness, weaving together the wellness and positivity that have long defined her public life.

Through the day, the summit also presented the Champion Awards, honouring individuals and organisations that foster positive work environments and champion the wellbeing of their people, extending the happiness conversation from the personal to the workplace.

Reflecting on the day, Happpy AiR – Atman in Ravi, the Happpiness Ambassador, said, “Today, hundreds of people came together not to chase happiness, but to experience it, and that is the shift we set out to create.”