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JULY 2020 `100 TAMING THE ‘WHAT IFS’ Worrying is natural but you can stop The Woman Who Won A Pot of Gold! DRAMA IN REAL LIFE ‘Scammed By My Best Friend’ TALK TO AN EXPERT How To New Rules of Sound the Job Game Smarter ������’� ������ CONTENTS Features 42 64 ����� ����� TAMING THE 74 ‘WHAT IFS’ 58 �������� �� ��������� We can’t run from ������ our worries, but we What Goes In, Night Without End can keep them from Must Come Out A narrow escape from running our lives. Healthy bowel campus violence at a Here’s how. movements mean Delhi university. �� ��������� �������� �� ���� ������� ���� a healthy you. ������ ����� �� ���� ������� ���� ������ ����� 78 54 ����� ���� ����� ����� 64 Tracking the The Woman Who Won ����� �� ���� ���� Tiger Butcher ����� a Pot of Gold ‘I Was Scammed Tigers are being farmed, A serial contest winner By My Best Friend’ killed and trafficked in ������ An expert con artist Laos. One man hunts �� shares her secret to hitting the jackpot. is brought to justice. down those responsible. ����� �� ���� ������������ �� ��������� ������ �� �������� ����� �������������.�� 3 ������’� ������ 9 Dear Reader ���� ���� ���� ���� ��� ����� 10 Over to You 26 Period Leave for �� �������� �������� ������ Men and Women, 34 Breast Cancer 14 There’s Always Churu’s Waterman in Men, Games and more to Beat Stress Room for Kindness �� �. ������ ����� �� �. ������ ����� and the Best ������ �� ������ Way to Get the 28 Jhumpa Lahiri, Right Sleep Conversations Hanif Kureishi and Mitch Albom ����� 18 A Doctor’s Duty 36 An Insurance in Today’s World Cover for �� �� ����. �. ������� ����� Better Living COVID-19 ������ ���������� �� ���� ������� ������ 22 We Threw Our 30 Never Miss ��� �� Workers under Breakfast Again! 38 Sound the Bus �� ������ ����� �� ��������� ������ Smarter, ���� with Expert ���� �� �� ������ 32 Drink to Beat Back Help 24 Rules of the Job �� ���� ������ ��� Summer Heat ������� �������� Game: Learn �� ������ �������� and Upskill �� ������� ������� ������������ 32 4 ���� ���� ������’� ������ Culturescape The Genius ��������� ���� Section ������� ������� 96 A Hell of an Actor 106 Surfing for �� ���� �. �. �������� Brainpower �� ������ �. �� ���������� ���������� 98 Films, Watchlist, 110 Brainteasers Books, Throwback 112 Sudoku and Funny People 113 Word Power ������ 115 Quiz 102 A Worthy Follow-Up 116 Quotable Quotes Humour �� ������� �������� 12 ������ All in a Day’s Work 103 Louis Pasteur by 21 Albert Edelfelt Humour in Uniform �� ������ ��������� 50 �� ��� �� ����� Laughter, The Best 104 Manjula Medicine Padmanabhan’s Top-10 Reads 73 As Kids See It 94 Life’s Like That ������ 96 ����������� �� On the Cover ����� ������ by Nilanjan Das ���� : ��� , Taming The ‘What Ifs’ ...............................................................42 ����� The Woman Who Won a Pot of Gold!.....................................54 ‘Scammed By My Best Friend’ ................................................ 64 ������ How to Sound Smarter ............................................................. 38 : New Rules of the Job Game......................................................24 ���� 6 ���� ���� VOL. �� NO. � JULY ���� E���������C���� Aroon Purie G���� E�������� D������� Raj Chengappa ������ Sanghamitra Chakraborty IMPACT �ADVERTISING� ����� �������� ������ Nilanjan Das ���������� �������� Manoj Sharma ����� ����� ������ Bandeep Singh ��������� ��������� Anil Fernandes ������: ������ �� ������ Jitendra Lad ������ ��������� ������ Ishani Nandi ���������: �� Upendra Singh ��������� ������� V. Kumara Swamy, Kaushiky Gangulie Kritika Banerjee �������: ������� ������� ������ Naorem Anuja, ���������� ������� BUSINESS Saptak Choudhury ����� ����� ��������� ������� Vivek Malhotra ��������� ����������� Khushboo Thakur ��, ��������� & ����������� Ajay Mishra ������ ��, ���������� G. L. Ravik Kumar ������ ��� �������� Sadhana Moolchandani ���, ��������� Kunal Bag ��������� ��� �������� Keshav Kapil �������, ��������� Anuj Kumar Jamdegni ����� �� ���������� Harish Aggarwal ��������� ������� Narendra Singh Reader’s Digest in India is published by: Living Media India Limited (Regd. Office: K9, Connaught Circus, New Delhi) under a licence granted by the TMB Inc. (formerly RDA Inc.), proprietor of the Reader’s Digest trademark. SALES AND OPERATIONS ������ ��, �������� ����� Deepak Bhatt Published in 46 editions and 17 languages, Reader’s Digest ��, ���������� Vipin Bagga is the world’s largest-selling magazine. It is also India’s largest-selling magazine in English. TRUSTED MEDIA BRANDS, INC. ��������� RDA I��.� P�������� ��� C���� E�������� O������ Bonnie Kintzer VP, C���� O�������� O������, I������������ Brian Kennedy E���������C����, I������������ M�������� Raimo Moysa F�������: DeWitt Wallace, 1889–1981; Lila Acheson Wallace, 1889–1984 HOW TO REACH US MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS/CUSTOMER CARE: Email [email protected] Mail Subscriptions Reader’s Digest, C-9, Sector 10, Noida, UP—201301. Tel: 0120-2469900 Toll-free No 1800 1800 001 (BSNL customers can call toll free on this number) For bulk subscriptions 0120-4807100, Ext. 4361 For change of address, enclose the addressed portion of your magazine wrapper. 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Printed at Thomson Press India Limited, 18–35 Milestone, Delhi–Mathura Road, Faridabad–121007, (Haryana). Published at K–9, Connaught Circus, New Delhi–110001. Editor: Sanghamitra Chakraborty (responsible for selection of news). 8 ���� ���� DEAR READER Sanghamitra Chakraborty V. kumara Swamy Sadhana Moolchandani Saptak Choudhury Taking Your Naorem Anuja Khushboo Thakur Ishani Nandi Aindrisha Mitra Leave Keshav Kapil Kririka Banerjee ��� � ���� to work for the times, as is normal in most families. India Today Group,14 years With a wonderful team and amazing W ago, as the editor of a health support from the India Today Group magazine, my son was an infant— and RD International, we have been today he is all set to fly the nest. Even able to bring RD into the 2020s—fresh when I took over at Reader’s Digest, columns, new voices, a bold new he was a middle-school boy. Where design and all. I can say with a bit of did the years go? pride now, my job is done. Working with RD, and serving you, I leave behind a team that I love, has been an incredible privilege. I have whom I will miss sorely. But they will had the opportunity to shape the ‘little be around, to work with the brilliant magazine that is a big read’, to make it Kai Freise—a friend and journalist I worthy of you. I often got teased about look up to—who will take over as the how I should learn to relax and treat it new editor, to keep the RD flag flying! more like a job. My brother would As I take your leave, I must also thank say, “Quit, come back home (to all my seniors and colleagues in the Calcutta), we will grow old group, not to mention our contribu- together.” I wish he was around tors, columnists and experts, I have to see this day. After serving as had the opportunity to work with editor of this wonderful maga- and learn from. zine for almost five years, I am Let’s all wish Kai and the finally moving on. team well, and keep reading Above all, I am grateful to the Digest. you, dear reader, for every- Goodbye for now! thing. You invited me into the RD family, shared your ideas and feedback, your warmth and good Sanghamitra Chakraborty wishes and also ������ some frank disap- Send an email to PHOTOGRAPH BY ANAND GOGOI,proval, HAIR & MAKE-UP BY ROLIKA PRAKASH; SHUTTERSTOCK some- [email protected] �������������.�� 9 needing the money for himself, had the heart to help a family in need. OVER TO These stories remind us that one does not need YOU to be rich, or of a certain ����� �� ��� age to be charitable and April ����� strong-willed—it is just what people are made of. Selfless and unsung heroes like them are The Man with a Heart of Gold rare but restore our The courage and conviction demonstrated by faith in humanity. Dinesh Talapada in refusing to press charges �������� ���������, against a young boy involved in an accident, via email which resulted in the loss of life of his beloved Dear Reader cousin, proves that such kindness requires not only The coronavirus a generous heart but, perhaps, one that has been pandemic has revealed shaped by the experience of living with hardship. that most countries Most people, finding themselves in a similar situa- around the world tion, would have resorted to legal action against have focused far too the boy. Talapada’s extraordinary act of kindness— much of their efforts giving away a large sum of money to a needy family, developing and building who were almost strangers, is quite remarkable.
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