2019-08-01_Reader_s_Digest_India

COVER STORY

I

n these strange, troubled times, what we all crave is

something familiar, something constant—something that

will not change, however much the world around us might.

And the answer to this is, literally, within ourselves. Indians

won’t change. We won’t change. It’s time to take another

look at our eccentricities and oddities, all those special

features, even the ones that embarrass and irritate us, that

make us unapologetically Indian.

There are so many things about this country that we don’t

appreciate until we are far away. You learn to truly value a lot

of the little expressions of large-scale cohabitation only when

50 august 2019

INDIAN

Unapologetically

By Samit Basu

Illustrations by Siddhant Jumde

Because we are like this only!