On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 16 Jul 2012 10:51:01 am Deepak Misra wrote: > > ou disapprove in principle of Readers Digest or Udhay giving them ?? > No that was a joke. I used to enjoy Reader's Digest very much in the 60s > and > in the 70s the Indian edition paid for the education of a classmate of > mine - > also a very close friend, because his father was the publisher. But after > the > 80s it seemed to lose its magic. After that it seemed to me that RD was > just a > load of "raddi paper" > > shiv > > I personally found RD a very sophisticated version of a soviet magazine. I think it was called Sputnick but maybe Sputnick was a clone of SPAN which was published by USIS. In any case, RD was a subtle propaganda for the American way of life. Yes you are right that deterioration started soon.
What is interesting with the old issues is the advertisements from those days. Deepak
