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Fire in the Belly
More stress brings more heartburn, but there are easy ways to beat it
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July 2021
Reader's Digest India
ME & MY SHELF
Born in Trinidad, West Indies, Peggy Mohan has taught linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Milia Islamia. Author of three novels, her most recent book, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants, tells the story of India through its languages.
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July 2021
Reader's Digest India
Books
Asoca: A Sutra by Irwin Allen Sealy, Penguin Viking
1 min |
July 2021
Reader's Digest India
Why Am I So Tired?
If you feel pooped all day, the solution isn’t always more sleep
10+ min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
5 Best Foods To Help You Bounce Back After Covid
5 best foods to help you bounce back
2 min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
ME & MY SHELF
A communications consultant and former photojournalist with Reuters, Farah Bashir is the author of Rumours of Spring, her debut coming-of-age memoir about growing up amidst the political turmoil and violence in Kashmir.
3 min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
Books
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam, Hamish Hamilton
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June 2021
Reader's Digest India
HAVING FINALLY ARRIVED
Fresh off the success of web series Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, actor Pratik Gandhi talks about how he suffers a “multiple passion disorder”—how he wants to now do many things
5 min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
GO WITH THE FLOW
How little acts of spontaneity can make your day
4 min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
THEY GIVE US HOPE
As the country coped with the trauma of a second COVID wave, a new set of citizen heroes came to its rescue
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June 2021
Reader's Digest India
We Will Study!
School closures have pushed rural girls in India back into a life of labour, underage marriage and gendered roles. It’s time their voices are heard
4 min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
UNDERWATER NIGHTMARE
It seemed impossible that anyone could be left alive. But an inner voice kept telling Nico that there was hope
9 min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
He Trots THE Air
Her horse had stayed by her side for 25 years. Now it was time to let him go
10 min |
June 2021
Reader's Digest India
The Bank Robber on the Bicycle
Tom Justice chased Olympic gold on his bike. Then he used it as a getaway vehicle
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June 2021
Reader's Digest India
THE EVER BELOVED MR BOND
In conversation with the grand old man of Indian storytelling
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June 2021
Reader's Digest India
Bring Back The Handkerchief!
I have used a pocket-handkerchief all my life—and was ridiculed for it. Now, my habit has found its moment
4 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
COVID 2.0: What You Need to Know
One year into the pandemic, we’ve learnt a lot about the coronavirus, but new questions have emerged. Here are answers to some of the more pressing ones
5 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
It Happens ONLY IN INDIA
“Ok. We like her. We accept the match”
2 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
DON'T GO INTO THE VOLCANO
A dream honeymoon hike to the rim of a jungle crater nds with a terrible fall. Now a young bride must get her severely injured husband medical care—by herself
10 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
“LET US MEET ON THE BRIDGE”
It broke the young couple’s heart that they had to give up their infant daughter to save her life. They never stopped loving her
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May 2021
Reader's Digest India
If Not Now, When?
As the country and its healthcare infrastructure reels from its biggest public-health crisis, what can we do?
6 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
MAKING ARISTOTLE YOUR LIFE COACH
Happiness is both an aspiration and a commodity. For all the smartphones, cars, clothes and real estate our money can buy, we still yearn for our happy place, that somewhere beyond the rainbow.
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May 2021
Reader's Digest India
DYNAMIC DUOS
Researchers are continually finding that certain foods deliver an even bigger health boost when consumed together. Make the most of these nutritious foods by teaming them up
5 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
A Tool for COVID-safety
GOOD NEWS for a Better Planet
3 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
ME & MY SHELF
Mumbai-based journalist and author Taran N. Khan has written for Guernica, Al Jazeera, The Caravan and Himal Southasian. Her debut book Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul won the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize.
3 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
Books
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie, Penguin Hamish Hamilton
1 min |
May 2021
Reader's Digest India
How To Eat Better For The Planet
You’re environmentally conscious—and hungry. Here are answers to all your eco-friendly food questions
5 min |
April 2021
Reader's Digest India
He Created an Eye Saving App
Like almost every set of new parents, Bryan and Elizabeth Shaw started snapping pictures of their son, Noah, practically from the moment he was born.
2 min |
April 2021
Reader's Digest India
The Costs of Narrow Nationalism
After taking charge in August 1947 as India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, began writing fortnightly letters to the chief ministers of the Indian Union. In these communiqués—at times persuasive, at others brimming with command—Nehru discusses the emerging blueprint for a young republic. Here is an edited excerpt of one such missive dated 20 September 1953.
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April 2021
Reader's Digest India
The Old Man Versus the Mountain
It wasn’t the first time Bill McDonnell had blazed his own trail in the wilderness. But at 92, he had slowed a bit. And this time, he was really lost
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