Reader's Digest India - December 2024

In this issue

Highlights of Reader's Digest India December 2024 issue:

This holiday season, end the year by celebrating camaraderie, community and togetherness with moving stories of perfectly imperfect families bound by love and friendship against all odds.

A Hug to Stop a Bank Robber

A man with a checkered past talks a troubled soul down

2 mins

HE SLIMED ME

My son's obsession with his gooey creations has been my undoing

3 mins

Cookies for Forgiveness

My blowup was half-baked. The apology wasn't

4 mins

SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS! FOR EVERYBODY!

Are you up to date on your vaccines? Our handy guide will let you know

3 mins

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF MEDICINE

One of the appeals of walking as exercise is that you don’t need any special equipment to do it.

2 mins

13 THINGS New Year's Traditions Around the World

MOST OF US spend the final seconds of each calendar year watching a nearly 5,440-kilo geodesic sphere descend over Times Square in New York City.

4 mins

Happy Holidays

Four stories that prove that there's no one right way to celebrate the holidays, as long as you're with family

10+ mins

How Risky Are Those Holiday Cocktails, Really?

The latest recommendations about drinking and your health

8 mins

BURIED IN A SNOW TOMB

The snowboarder was off the trail, headfirst under six feet of powder. To survive, his luck would need to change

8 mins

THE FIRST PHOTOBOMBER

struck in 1853! And other 'new' fads that are actually ancient history

8 mins

A Mouthful of Good Health

How two carnivores survived on a guilt-free vegetarian diet in the heartland of Ayurveda

5 mins

Searching for Santa Claus

Santa lives at the North Pole, right? Don't say that to the people of Rovaniemi in northern Finland

6 mins

DO YOU DARE?

Two Danish businesswomen want us to start eating insects. It's good for the environment, but can consumers get over the yuck factor?

5 mins

She Defied All the Odds

When doctors told the McCoombes that spina bifida would severely limit their daughter's life, they refused to listen. So did the little girl

9 mins

Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India by Karan Madhok (Aleph)

Karan Madhok's Ananda is a lively, three-dimensional exploration of India's past and present relationship with cannabis.

1 min

Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Penguin Random House India)

Samantha Harvey became the latest winner of the Booker Prize last month for Orbital, a short, sharp shock of a novel about a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station for a long-term mission.

1 min

I'll Have it Here: Poems by Jeet Thayil, (Fourth Estate)

For over three decades now, Jeet Thayil has been one of India's pre-eminent Englishlanguage poets.

1 min

WE'RE NOT KIDDING WITH MEHDI & FRIENDS

Since his exit from MSNBC, star anchor and journalist Mehdi Hasan has gone on to found Zeteo, an all-new media startup focussing on both news and analysis.

1 min

ANURAG MINUS VERMA PODCAST

Interview podcasts live and die not just on the strengths of the interviewer but also the range of participating guests.

1 min

EMBEDDED FROM NPR

For all its flaws and shortcomings, some of which have come under the spotlight in recent years, NPR makes some of the best hardcore journalistic podcasts ever.

1 min

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