Highlights of Readers Digest India magazine, October 2014 Read about The Beautiful Life of Your Brain, our October cover story, which analyzes the neuroscience of our most human traits and how we are programmed to react in different situations. Armed with such knowledge, you can now make your brain work more elegantly and productively, be it at the office, home or the street. For Gandhi Jayanti, our Words of Lasting Interest feature is a translation of a soulful hymn Gandhiji lived by. Another festival to commemorate Bapus birth anniversary is Daan Utsav—its purpose is to encourage people to give something to others who are less fortunate and discover the joy in doing so. Read about it in The Joy of Giving. This month’s My Story section has a maths teacher writing about the father she lost when she was still a child. A loving parent never really dies, as the story suggests. And Everyday Heroes features two people this time—one a 79-year-old man, the other a teenager. Learn about How Google Remains the Best Place to Work, and witness the silent attack of urbanization in Studio. Enrich your vocabulary with Word Power and as always, our humour sections are here to tickle your funny bone.