Reader’s Digest has been the world’s biggest-selling magazine for nearly nine decades. It is also India’s largest-selling magazine in English. Beneath the fun and excitement of its pages, the Digest is, above all else, a serious magazine that never loses sight of the fact that, each day, all of us confront a tough, challenging world. To the millions who read the Digest, it is not a luxury—it is a necessity. Deep within its widely varied package of humour, real-life dramas and helpful information, there is in every issue of the Digest a subtle power that guides people in every aspect of their lives.
Reader’s Digest India • VOL. 63 NO. 7 JULY 2022
OVER TO YOU • NOTES ON THE May ISSUE
HUMOUR in UNIFORM
“Got You, Mama!” • Important lessons I’ve learnt while playing board games with my kids
YOUR TRUE STORIES IN 100 Words
Seed Savers • How amateur gardeners are protecting Canada’s botanical biodiversity
ALL in a Day’s WORK
WHOM DO YOU CALL WHEN THE FUR FLIES? • These 911 operators took to Reddit to share some of the wilder calls they’ve taken.
It Happens ONLY IN INDIA
POINTS TO PONDER
An Anti-Migraine Diet • What you eat—and don’t eat—can help stave off debilitating headaches
Keeping a Laughter Journal
Can You Change Your Luck? • And is luck even a real thing? It’s complicated
AS KIDS SEE IT
I Am Mango … Regal and Delicious
NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF MEDICINE
WE FOUND A FIX • HELP, HACKS AND HOW TO
Laughing MATTERS • Humour connects us to one another. But how has what we find funny changed over the past 100 years?
Funny People’s Funniest Stories • Our grab-bag of jokes, quips, gaffes and gags by laughmakers from around the world
THE PLACEBO CURE • Could fake medicine be as effective as the real thing? effective as the real thing?
Photo-Bombed! • Just when you think you have arranged the perfect shot, you are …
LIFE’S Like That
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Reunited With Her Rescuers • Thirty-five years after two fishermen plucked a young girl from the Pacific Ocean, a podcast leads to a remarkable reunion
CLASSIC CARTOONS • That’ll still make you LOL!
MEET ERNŐ RUBIK • He devised one of the world’s most popular and enduring puzzles—and he’s still learning from it
Lending a Hand in UKRAINE • Amid the brutality and destruction, people around the world have reached out to help those caught in the crossfire. Here are a few of their stories
NOT JUST ROCKET SCIENCE • Actor R. Madhavan on donning many hats for Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, keeping his swimmer son grounded and why South Indian cinema is thriving
LAUGHTER THE BEST Medicine
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Films
#WATCHLIST: ON OUR RADAR
Books • Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya by Akshaya Mukul, Vintage Books
Scope Out
STUDIO • “On the Darkest Night, Will There be Light?”
Reads Like Magic • In Tomb of Sand—Daisy Rockwell’s translation of Geetanjali Shree’s novel—everything is illuminated
ME & MY SHELF • Through her work with Marine Life of Mumbai, a citizen-led initiative raising awareness about the city’s coastal biodiversity, journalist and editor Sejal Mehta has been making science accessible for lay audiences. She does much the same with her new book, Superpowers on the Shore.
BRAIN TEASERS
SUDOKU
WORD POWER • Roll out the red carpet and prepare to be tickled pink: These vocabulary words are all related to colour. Will you win the blue ribbon, or wave the white flag? Head over the rainbow to the next page for the...