Lifestyle
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 |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Do More With Your Tech
You're undoubtedly missing out on cool features that can help make life easier, safer and even more fun
10 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Why Water Workouts Work
Swimming and other aquatic exercises have special benefits
3 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Surf's Up... Again
A Hawaiian helps victims of a devastating fire in the most Hawaiian way possible
3 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
HUMOUR in UNIFORM
I got sloppy with my shaving one morning and nicked my skin.
1 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Leave the WILD Things Be
Wild animals have been made to serve a variety of human needs, including recreational ones. It’s up to everyday folk to decry the use of animals for entertainment
6 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Doing Dad's Bucket List
Laura Carney's father died suddenly, with unfinished business. So she started checking off the items for him
4 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Buried beneath a Mountain
The amazing 17-day-long, multi-agency effort to rescue 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel
10 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
IS EVERYONE ON OZEMPIC?
Everything you need to know about the new diabetes drugs shaping the weight-loss revolution
8 min |
June 2024
Reader's Digest India
Have Child, Will Travel
Bringing my kid on my around-the-world adventures helped me see her in new and unexpected ways
5 min |
May 2024
Reader's Digest India
As Gods Among Us
A photographer explores the gamut of India’s ritual performers who embody deities as a form of worship
5 min |
May 2024
Reader's Digest India
My stutter, Myself
If others don't notice my stutter, can I really call myself a stutterer?
8 min |
May 2024
Reader's Digest India
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Modification
A Queensland mechanic customizes bikes so veterans can get riding again
2 min |