The Strange Mathematics of Speaking Six Languages
A language lover gets put through the paces.
Narayani Basu's 10 Favourite Books of all Time
Historian and foreign policy analyst, Narayani Basu is the author of the critically acclaimed biography V. P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India (2020) and Allegiance: Azaadi and the End of Empire (2022). Her most recent release is A Man For All Seasons: The Life Of K. M. Panikkar.
The Cult of Amitabh, A Glimpse into the Making of an Indian Icon
An early-career profile of the India’s most beloved and enduring film actor whose following still verges on the incredible. From RD's April 1981 edition
Syros: Greece's Gift to the World
The Aegean island is eager to welcome visitors—but on its own terms.
Before the Camera: How Patna Qalam Captured Everyday India
Once carried to Britain as souvenirs, Patna Qalam paintings captured daily 18th-century life in India with rare tenderness. An recent exhibition in Patna revived this art tradition on home ground
The Cat Who brought a Community Together
How one friendly feline turned a street of strangers into a family
Love Amid Danger: When Villagers Protected Five Indian POWs from German Soldiers during WWII
The little-known story of five Indian soldiers who escaped from a World War II German camp, and the strangers in an Italian village who risked their lives to keep them safe
Old Ben Franklin and His Miserable Maxims
This delightful—and virtually unknown—spoof was written by one of America’s greatest humorists. Can you guess who?
Adrift On An Endless Sea
When the current swept Nathan and Kim Maker far from their dive boat, all they had was each other.
Good News: Pay Garbage for Food, Wellness for Rural Women, and More
Heartwarming, world-shaking, awe-inspiring and straight-up happy-making reasons to smile
My Lucky Day: Six Tales of Good Fortune
True stories of happy serendipities that is sure to make you smile
Listen to the Rush: How a Fisherman who Lost his Sight Found Freedom and Joy in the Wild Rivers of New Zealand
When Toni Marks casts his fishing line out into the moving waters of the remote rivers of New Zealand in search of wild trout, his attention is fixed firmly on the sounds of nature
Through The Healing Meadows Of Memory
Remembrances are the seeds of the past, ready to spring into instant and beneficial bloom. An RD Classic from 1985
They Took Their Film to the Streets ... And Built an Audience From Scratch
In a film industry that rarely makes space for outsiders, Tanmaya Shekhar and Molshri rewrote the rules—taking their story to the streets, and finding an audience along the way.