In this issue

Highlights of India Today 20th August 2018, issue:

This week's issue is all about 71 years of India’s Independence. From freedom to drink to freedom of choice, the cover package consists of 19 essays that show how freedom can be complicated.

The Nation story – Hell Comes Home – talks about how a seedy nexus - involving a Muzaffarpur strongman, the state police, district officials and a minister's spouse - flourished on CM Nitish Kumar's watch.

This week's issue carries forward India Today’s Save the Taj Campaign and looks at the mystery behind its brown tint in the story Mystery of the Brown Taj. While experts are clueless as to why a sickly tint is spreading all over the iconic monument, policymakers are asking if the Taj was really all that white.

With the death of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi earlier this week, the story – A Towering Torchbearer - looks at how the passing of the iconic leader has marked the end of the first generation of post-Independence leaders in Dravidian politics.

The issue comes with two free magazines: Simply Delhi, and Simply Mumbai.

Target Practice

The Congress believes it has the government on the mat over the Rafale deal and the BJP has a new scam to target the Congress with. In a report tabled before Parliament on August 7, the Comptroller and Auditor General indicated serious discrepancies in a UPA-era deal: a $2.1 billion contract in 2009 to buy eight Boeing P8-I Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance (LRMR) aircraft.

2 mins

The Lingering Shadow Of Doklam

A year after the August 2017 disengagement between the Indian and Chinese armies after a 72-day stand-off, the shadow of Doklam lingers. “Amazing how a lady like Sushmaji has buckled and prostrated herself in front of Chinese power,” Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted on August 2. “Absolute subservience to the leader means our brave jawan has been betrayed on the border.” 

2 mins

The Illegals Debate

The Assam citizens’ register crisis has spilled into neighbouring West Bengal with both the TMC and BJP playing votebank politics over the issue

3 mins

AAP Loses AADMIS

With rebels chafing at Kejriwal’s “dictatorial ways”, the party looks headed for a split in the state

3 mins

M Karunanidhi- A Towering Torchbearer

An epoch has ended in Dravidian politics. Will the inheritors of Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s legacy find a way of carrying forward his brand of local-yet-national politics?

5 mins

Hell Comes Home

How a seedy nexus—involving a Muzaffarpur strongman, the state police, district officials and a minister’s spouse—flourished on CM Nitish Kumar’s watch

7 mins

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