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Reader's Digest India
Small Business, Big Heart
Caring for people is part of the deal at family-run shops
4 min |
August 2024
Reader's Digest India
Spill the Beans
Everyone has secrets. Here's why you should share yours
4 min |
August 2024
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 |