Reader's Digest India Magazine - January 2016

In this issue

Highlights of Reader’s Digest January 2016, issue: Happiness Begins with Humour
It's great to start the New Year with a smile, or better still, a laugh. And so, the team at RD, called upon India's leading comedians to tell us their favourite jokes. Plus, joke-makers world over chipped in with theirs, to give us our cover story, "Funny People's Favourite Jokes". Other funnies include a column by John Cleese on what he'd do if he ruled the world (he'd ban celery, for starters!); and other RD favourites: Humour in Uniform; Laughter, the Best Medicine; and our new column, It Happens Only in India.
At the start of the year, India's leading lights from different fields put down a wishlist for our country in 2016. Read about what they really believe India needs. But unlike what the newspapers tell us, the world is not really falling apart, so says our story on how crime, poverty and violence are indeed diminishing. In fact, our problems may be more personal, with digital addiction becoming a real problem. Smartphone Slaves tells us how to cut down the noise, so we focus on the here and now.
In a touching story of the Paris attacks, read about the guitar-maker who died, but left behind him memories chronicled in Thank You for the Guitar.