Reader’s Digest India – August 2019

Reader’s Digest 58 august 2019 “#LivingMyPromise is a platform for like-minded people to come together and pool their resources ...

THE POWER OF GIVING W hen Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buf- fet launched The Giv- ing Pledge in August 2010, they invited h ...

and Ulhas Vairagkar don’t believe that philanthropic support should be pub- licized. “However, we are persuaded that our pledge ...

meals to underprivileged students in his college. When he lost his mother at the relatively young age of 51—Prabhu was 21—he mad ...

SRIRAM VENKATRAMAN AND MASHQURA FAREEDI, Bengaluru For development professionals Sriram Venkatraman, 36, and Mashqura Fareedi, 3 ...

the pledge. “Many of our friends have existing commitments that they need to honour first. But for many of us, especially the on ...

at all. I realized that my daughter and son-in-law, both successful profes- sionals, were much less likely to need my money than ...

The Power of Giving MEENAKSHI RAMESH, Chennai For 49-year-old Meenakshi Ramesh, a social entrepreneur and passionate volunteer o ...

66 august 2019 box had the $15 price stamped on the top, which I thought would be tacky on a gift, so I asked the man behind the ...

Reader’s Digest will pay for your funny anecdote or photo in any of our humour sections. Post it to the editorial address, or em ...

NATIONAL INTEREST “Come back soon, Ammi!” a teary- eyed Arhaan implored his mother, when she dropped him to school in April last ...

Reader’s Digest readersdigest.co.in 69 Wasima, an RTE beneficiary, with her parents Maqsoodan (left) and Akhtar Ali ...

good schooling for both. Right to Edu- cation came as a boon,” says Uzma, happy to be able to admit Arhaan to Blue Bells under p ...

its development? The story of these children illustrates at once how the RTE has been an asset, while highlighting the challenge ...

infrastructure. The fraction of schools with usable girls’ toilets doubled, reaching 66.4 per cent in 2018, ac- cording to Aser ...

In 2018, just over 50 per cent of class 5 children could read a class 2- level text meant for seven- to eight- year-olds. This i ...

This also worries Saleem Khan, who runs the Saaras Foundation based in Lucknow. “If this could be addressed, 50 per cent of the ...

Reader’s Digest readersdigest.co.in 75 The next day, while we waited at the doctor’s office, Jaden noticed a poster of a doctor ...

Reader’s Digest 76 august 2019 WO M In the backcountry of British Columbia, Brock Crouch prepared to carve up a mountain as the ...

DRAMA IN REAL LIFE readersdigest.co.in 77 MPF! ...