Reader's Digest India - August 2020

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Highlights of Reader’s Digest August 2020, issue: Inspiration abounds this month as RD brings uplifting stories of inventive jugaads by humble Indians, an education activist breaking the chains of child labour, a miraculous air rescue, a champion for the environment, and more.

Children of Destiny

Once a victim of child labour, Neeraj Murmu now leads other disadvantaged kids out of the trap of exploitation and poverty

3 mins

Lessons for India's Democracy

On 25 November 1949, the principal architect of the Indian constitution Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar addressed India’s Constituent Assembly for the last time, the day before the Constitution was adopted. Here is an excerpt from the speech.

4 mins

Five Lessons in Harmony

What choir singing taught me about life, fellowship and happiness

4 mins

MAKING DO TO SURVIVE

Famine, floods, poverty and now a pandemic— Indians have faced it all. So what keeps us going? Often, it’s a clever little thing called jugaad

4 mins

The Great Indian Jugaad

INDIANS ARE NO STRANGERS to hardship but the current coronavirus pandemic has surely tested the limits of desi homegrown cleverness. Here we feature some of the ways in which the Indian jugaadu came through against COVID-19.

8 mins

21 Health Symptoms You Should Never Ignore

21 Health Symptoms You Should Never Ignore

9 mins

THE FIGHT TO SAVE A MOUNTAIN

A former Air Force pilot and tea planter describes why, at 77, he is still ready to fight to protect the Himalayan landscape he calls home

5 mins

Miracle in Mid-Air

Almost 80 years after it unfolded in the sky over San Diego, a nearly impossible rescue mission remains one of the most daring feats in aeronautical history

6 mins

The Things We Leave Behind

After my grandmother’s death, we found drawers filled with knick-knacks her pilot son would bring her. Is it our anxiety to not forget and not be forgotten that makes us collect things?

6 mins

The Versatile Mr Grover

An accomplished stand-up comedian, Varun Grover is an adept screenwriter, lyricist, and now author, as well

2 mins

Books - Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life by Mike Brearley, Hachette India

Ex-cricketer Mike Brearley reflects on the importance of the rules and the spirit of ‘justice’ in the game of cricket in his latest book.

2 mins

ME & MY SHELF: Benyamin's Top-10 Reads

Benyamin is an Indian novelist and writer of short stories in Malayalam. His 2008 book Goat Days won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Another novel Jasmine Days was awarded the JCB Prize for Literature and the Crossword Book Award (both in 2018). His latest works include Al Arabian Novel Factory and Body and Blood.

5 mins

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