India Today Malayalam Magazine - December 11, 2013

In this issue

Highlights of India Today Malayalam issue dated December 11th, 2013. The issue looks at the fall of media icon Tarun Tejpal, the former editor in chief of Tehelka , who has been arrested for rape of his younger colleague in Goa during the think fest conducted by them How the once powerful media icon came to such a pass and how his and the girls testimony differ and why this case is important is investigated by India Today. The story also looks at his and his families financial transactions in various companies hosted by them .Then there is a big story, an exclusive on Perarivalan,one of the men awarded the death sentence for his role in the Rajiv assassination. The revelation of a CBI police officer Tyagarajan who investigated the case that Arivu has no direct knowledge of the conspiracy and the move to kill Rajiv has send shockwaves across the country. That a man sentenced to death seems to be innocent .India today meets him in the jail and his mother who has been relentlessly fighting for him during the past two decades. Would he be released based on new revelations is the story.
The issue also looks the case of Arushi and the sentence for Aarushi`s parents the Talwars. Whether all the evidence were investigated and why and how the Talwars had to face the sentence. There are many pieces to be just filled in. The issue also gives an assessment of the Palghat plenum of CPM where the party deliberated on rejuvenating the party through purging of bourgeoisie tendencies and the appeasement of religious forces The issue also looks at the mining controversy in which CPM leader and the former industry minister Elamaram Karim is alleged to have helped the mining lobby.The issue also contains a story on the south Indian lady actors who are ruling the film dom like Nayanathara, Tamannah, Samantha, Kajol Agarwal, Anushka and Shruthi Hassan. The issue has also an investigative piece on gold smuggling to Kerala and an interview with Jitheesh Kallat the new curator for Kochi Muziris Binelle The issue also feature M S Banesh, Sreedivya, Divya Spandana,Richa Panai,Sunny Leone, Sanjitha and Unni Mukundan,Madhuri Deekshit,Vedhika,Nana Patekar and San Sayeed also are featured here.