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Reader's Digest India
It Happens ONLY IN INDIA
Angry lovers are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.
2 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
FULL STEAM AHEAD!
I GOT THE CHANCE TO DRIVE THE WORLD'S LAST SCHEDULED STEAM TRAIN
7 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
Stressed and Worn Down
More and more people are clenching and grinding their teeth. Here's what to do about it
3 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
THIS BACON FAKERY MUST STOP
I was recently given bacon-flavoured dental floss for my birthday.
2 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
Tasty Tacos
Those shells hold a lot of history
2 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
About Shipwrecks
If you don’t want your ship to sink, you’d better break a bottle of champagne on it before launching.
3 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
Freaky Phobias
Just because it doesn’t make sense doesn’t make it any less scary
3 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
HOW SHUTTING UP FOR THREE MONTHS AND WALKING NEARLY 1,000 KILOMETRES TRANSFORMED MY LIFE
10+ min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
Taking on Goliath
How one man led a successful campaign that saved 4,45,000 acres of forests from 21 planned coal mines in India
4 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
HEARTS of STEEL
FOUR STORIES THAT PAINT A VIVID PICTURE OF BRAVERY, SACRIFICE, AND THE PROFOUND IMPACT OF WAR ON THE HUMAN SPIRIT
10+ min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
ME & MY SHELF
Chitra Divakaruni is the author of 23 books including The Forest of Enchantment, Mistress of Spices and Palace of Illusions. Her latest book is An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayan Murthy.
2 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
RD RECOMMENDS-BOOKS
Hanuman Chalisa and More
1 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Who's Getting Colon Cancer
With rates rising among younger people, testing should start sooner
3 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
25 Lessons That Last A Lifetime
Suggestions about life are a little like lottery tickets: You may collect a lot of them, but they rarely pay off. Yet if you are truly lucky, you receive a few words of wisdom that inspire you forever. That's called hitting the jackpot
10+ min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
A Symphony Of Irritation
In the 2022 film Tár, Cate Blanchett played a conductor who was affected by misophonia—an acute sensitivity to certain sounds. For Lydia Tár, Blanchett’s character, the clicking of a pen or the beat of a metronome was enough to drive her to distraction.
3 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Is Poverty Alleviation Truly Possible?
We ask economist and Nobel laureate Esther Duflo
4 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
The Alpha Dog
To rescue lost animals, she climbs into places most of us avoid
3 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Let's Say Yes!
What started out as a way to get my son to try new foods opened up a world of adventure for my family
3 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Hey Dad, Can You Help Me Return the Picasso I Stole?
A painting went missing in 1969, then turned up at a museums doorstep. No one knew how or why—until now
8 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Band of Survivors
Armed with his drum kit, a Holocaust survivor fights anti-Semitism one musical note at a time
10 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
A Race Well-Limped
A reluctant runner’s key to keeping high spirits? Low expectations
5 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
THE Beauty Queens OF AL DHAFRA
Welcome to Al Dhafra’s camel beauty pageant, where the competition is tough
3 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Words from the Heartland
A letter can contain many things: an expression of warmth, consolation for a loved one’s absence, or perhaps a reminder of provinciality
4 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
DISASTER ON THE RIVER
__ Two canoeists struggle to keep themselves—and their friendship—afloat
10 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Let's Dance!
It’s good for your body, soul and even your brain
6 min |
July 2024
Reader's Digest India
Next Stop: Who Knows?
We wanted to do a once-in-a-lifetime trek in northern Laos. Just getting there became the adventure
10+ min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
ME & MY SHELF
Former director-general of the Delhi Policy Group, Radha Kumar is an academic, author and policy analyst. Her most recent book, The Republic Relearnt: Renewing Indian Democracy (1947-2024), explores the triumphs and the democratic decay of the Indian Republic.
3 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
The Journey Of The Kon-Tiki
Is it possible to cross the Pacific on a wooden raft? Natural scientist Thor Heyerdahl risks everything to prove it
10+ min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Hot and (Un)bothered
Not that anyone in India needs to be reminded, but summer is here, and the collective energy dissipated by people complaining about the heat is making climate change even worse.
2 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
GOTCHA!
We asked for it: What’s the best prank you ever pulled?
3 min |