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Reader's Digest India
Speaking of History by Romila Thapar, Namit Aroram, Penguin Random House, India
Romila Thapar is one of India's most accomplished historians, her work on ancient India being particularly well-received and a part of university curricula around the world.
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December 2025
Reader's Digest India
ME & MY SHELF
Ranjeet Pratap Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Pratilipi, the largest Indian language digital storytelling platform with over 9,50,000 writers in 12 languages and over 30 million monthly readers. Singh was part of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018.
3 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
HUMOUR in UNIFORM
While our frigate was taking on supplies at sea from a British ship, I noticed three of their sailors pointing to our destroyer’s squadron crest, which was proudly mounted on the side of our ship.
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December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Obeshwar by A. Ramachandran, Oil on canvas, 2022 78 x 192 inches
One of independent India’s preeminent artists, A. Ramachandran (born in 1935), passed away last year, following a long and distinguished career.
1 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Memes for Mummyji by Santosh Desai, HarperCollins India
Santosh Desai, one of Indian advertising's leading lights for over two decades, has a well-earned reputation for spotting cultural trends in Indian cities, as evidenced by his previous book Mother Pious Lady.
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December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh, HarperCollins India
In Amitav Ghosh's first novel since Gun Island (2019), we meet a young Marwari girl named Varsha Singh living in Calcutta in the 1960s with her strictly vegetarian family.
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December 2025
Reader's Digest India
"Good Songs Stay Written ..."
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen on music as a time machine, responsibility in the family, and the situation in the USA
3 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
WHEN COMPUTERS WERE FEMALE
THE PIONEERS OF PROGRAMMING WERE SIX WOMEN
6 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
I Am My Mother's Older Brother
As the onset of dementia reshapes their world, a daughter becomes her mother's carer and keeper while navigating grief, duty, and unwavering love
7 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Small Changes Big Results
While motivation gets us started, discipline is what keeps us going.
3 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
THE PROPER SHOE IS DEAD
Once upon a time your footwear was an indicator of social status. Today even the rich wear flip-flops
3 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
ROCK BOTTOM
A HIKER SOMEHOW SURVIVED BEING PINNED IN A CREEK UNDER A 315-KILO BOULDER. THEN THE WATER STARTED TO RISE
10+ min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Other Skies, Other Stories by Sara Rai (translated by Ira Pande and Sara Rai), Zubaan Books
Sara Rai is a bilingual writer working in both Hindi and English; her translations of the Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla's work in particular are excellent.
1 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
A Home Less Ordinary
With honesty, humour and literary grace, Anuradha Roy's new memoir traces her shift to the hills of Ranikhet, and replaces the dream of pastoral bliss with something tougher, truer, and more deeply earned
2 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
PULIYABAAZI: THE HINDI PODCAST, SPOTIFY
Presented by tech entrepreneur Saurabh Chandra, scholar Pranay Kotasthane, and writer-cartoonist Khyati Pathak, Puliyabaazi is a Hindi-language podcast that operates at the inter-section of technology, policy and culture.
1 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
NIGHT REIGN by Arooj Aftab
In 2022, singer, composer and producer Arooj Aftab became the first-ever artist of Pakistani origin to win a Grammy—her song ‘Mohabbat’ won Best Global Music Performance.
1 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
No Drama Llamas
BEING WITH LOVED ones during the holidays is a delight. Getting there is not.
1 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Taking Care of You ... All of You
Your mental health is just as important as your physical health
8 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Our Best Worst Christmas Idea Ever...
... had four legs and a wagging tail—a puppy!
4 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
ALL in a Day's WORK
At the start of her kindergarten class, my friend told her students, “I think we'll be inside at recess today, because it was raining on my way to work.”
1 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Giggle The Gloom Away
Laugh your way to better health and well-being with this appealing physical therapy
6 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
PLURIBUS, on Apple TV
Vince Gilligan, creator of two of the most acclaimed TV shows of the last decade—Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul—returns with Pluribus, a post-apocalyptic science-fiction drama that’s arguably more ambitious than his previous work.
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December 2025
Reader's Digest India
FALLOUT SEASON 2
on Amazon Prime Video, 17 December
1 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
A Tight-Knit Community
A nationwide group of crafters pick up their needles and finish projects for those who can't
2 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING TO CHANCE
IN HONG KONG, THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO HELP LUCK ALONG
6 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
The Christmas Truce of 1914
As World War I raged around them, soldiers facing off along one stretch of the fighting decided to hit pause
6 min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Holiday Magic
The spirit of the season comes through in many ways, some carefully planned, others totally unexpected
10+ min |
December 2025
Reader's Digest India
Ash and After
Amid the ruins and rhythms of our times, Anju Dodiya paints what remains—empathy, imagination, and quiet endurance
4 min |
November 2025
Reader's Digest India
Krishna (Spring in Kulu)
The Russian painter, writer, philosopher and public intellectual Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was one of those rare individuals for whom the often-misused word 'polymath' truly applied—his interests in and mastery over wildly disparate parts of the human experience was undeniable.
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November 2025
Reader's Digest India
A Single Spark
When a woman caught on fire at a barbecue, Ralph Tölke acted immediately
3 min |