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Reader's Digest India
A FRAGRANCE HANGS IN THE AIR
THE SOUTH OF OMAN IS THE CRADLE OF FRANKINCENSE. TO THIS DAY, THE RESIN IS HARVESTED BY HAND USING TRADITIONAL METHODS
6 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
Belonging and Beyond
Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai discusses her sweeping new novel, in which she explores themes of migration, memory, love, and the burden of history across generations
5 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
"I Definitely Crank it up."
Bryan Adams on guitar heroes, stage fright, and how he maintains his youthful looks
3 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
A Mother's Last Words
The joy of her wedding day was enriched by her mother's special message
6 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
RETURN OF THE TUNA
TUNA ARE LONG-DISTANCE SWIMMERS. NOW THEY ARE BACK IN THE ØRESUND OFF THE DANISH COAST—AFTER AN ABSENCE OF 50 YEARS
7 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
TWO HORRIFIC ATTACKS ... ONE FOREVER LOVE STORY
COLIN COOK REMEMBERS the moments just before. Water lapped against his legs as he straddled his surfboard 300 feet from the shore of Leftovers Beach on Oahu.
10+ min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
RD RECOMMENDS
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
2 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
The Angel of Indian Rocks
A once-in-a-lifetime flood didn't stop a man on a paddleboard from rescuing his neighbours
4 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
A Trail Of Spirits
Exploring Japan's Alpine wine regions reveal some hidden historical and cultural wonders
6 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
WORLD OF MEDICINE
New Dirt on Dirt
1 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
STUDIO
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller,
1 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
ME & MY SHELF
Historian and foreign policy analyst, Narayani Basu is the author of the critically acclaimed biography V. P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India (2020) and Allegiance: Azaadi and the End of Empire (2022). Her most recent release is A Man For All Seasons: The Life Of K. M. Panikkar.
3 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
SMALL CHANGES BIG RESULTS
Who needs an overhaul? You can get healthier, happier, more fit, better rested ... one little step at a time
8 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
THE STORAGE UNIT OF MUM AND DAD
Because our own parents threw out all our stuff, we are reluctant to part with our children's memorabilia
3 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
BECAUSE THE HEART HAS ROOM FOR ALL
How my blended family taught me that parenthood isn't about who came first—it's about who stays, cares and makes love feel endless
4 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
Snap! Crackle! Pop!
What's normal with our joints, and how to prevent pain and problems
3 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
"He Is God's Problem Now"
A son bids farewell to his father with a fittingly irreverent obituary
4 min |
October 2025
Reader's Digest India
RD RECOMMENDS
HUMANS IN THE LOOP
4 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
LIFE'S Like That
Take That!
1 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
What Do ANIMALS FEEL?
IT IS NOT ONLY HUMANS WHO FEEL EMPATHY, SADNESS AND JOY. OTHER SPECIES ALSO APPEAR TO HAVE COMPLEX EMOTIONS
7 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
News from the WORLD OF MEDICINE
Fermentable Fibre Works Like A Natural Ozempic
1 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
LAUGHTER THE BEST Medicine
A man calls a family meeting to discuss an exceptionally high phone bill: Dad: “This is unacceptable, I don’t use the home phone, I use my work phone.”
2 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
GOOD NEWS ABOUT BRAIN CANCER
An experimental new treatment makes tumours melt away
10+ min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
ALL in a Day's WORK
Every year, emergency responders at E-Comm 911 in British Columbia share some of the less- than-urgent calls that they've fielded:
2 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
To-Do List GOT YOU DOWN?
Understanding the psychology of goals can help tick things off—and keep you on track
3 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
WHEN AFFIRMATIONS MEET EDUCATION
Self-help says manifest joy. Teaching says manifest patience, coffee, and an early retirement plan. This Teacher's Day, here are some positive mantras only educators could write.
1 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
TO MY UNKNOWN BENEFACTOR
Stories of nameless Good Samaritans that reminds us that even the smallest acts of compassion can never be forgotten
8 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
STUDIO
Interior of Sikandra Bagh, Albumen silver print, 24×28.7 cm
1 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
Doing What's Morally Right
Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates celebrates successes in healthcare
3 min |
September 2025
Reader's Digest India
A Call for KINDNESS
What does it mean to live with daya-kindness-as both duty and grace in today's conflicted world?
3 min |