In this issue

Highlights of India Today – 24th September 2018 issue:

The cover story this week - Free At Last - looks at the Supreme Court's recent verdict that decriminalised homosexuality and recognised the constitutional rights of LGBTQ people. The judgement emphasises on the role of the courts to step in to prevent violations of fundamental rights, when the legislature and executive fail to do so.

The cover story package also explores five different aspects of the Supreme Court judgement. These include the experiences of a gay filmmaker in the Indian film industry before and after the 2018 judgement, and stories of gay people from across the country.

The story - Turbulence Ahead - looks at the troubles looming over Air Asia and how controversies over a domestic tie-up threaten to crash the Tata Group's dream of a comeback in the aviation sector

The story - First Mover Advantage - looks at how Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has played a masterstroke by advancing the assembly elections by eight months, and at the same time catching rivals unawares.

The issue also comes with three free magazines: Simply Mumbai, Simply Pune, and Simply Punjabi.

A Burning Issue

In June this year, when fuel prices in India shot up after global crude prices crossed $80 a barrel, Union minister for oil Dharmendra Pradhan said there was little that the central government could do, but states should look at lowering the value-added tax (VAT) on fuel.

2 mins

Is India Ready For Section 377?

The landmark 377 judgment has ushered in a new sexual morality in India. But the battle between progressive and regressive social mores looms.

6 mins

The Travails Of Same-Sex Love

Striking down the 158-year-old law, Justice R.F. Nariman quoted from a poem by Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s lover. From Two Loves, he picked the last line: “I am the love that dare not speak its name.” Over endless cups of tea and in phone calls from across the country, gay people told us stories of their once-forbidden love. Of their loneliness, estrangement and invisibility in popular culture—and in their everyday life. They spoke of the trauma, the fear and the persecution. For all the people of privilege, the Suneet Varmas and Ayesha Soods of these intimate portraits, who grew up in families that accepted their sexuality, and for whom Section 377 was a “sad fact” that didn’t really cast a shadow on their lives, there are also thousands like Davinder Rajput, 27, from Jalandhar, who was ostracised, even beaten up daily, for being gay. But it doesn’t always have to be that way. The two couples featured here speak of their committed love for each other, the single gay man in a big city about his search for companionship and the rustic hunk of his grit in walking his own path to be with his lover. Maybe these stories of hope and courage and love will make it all a little more socially legit. Because, as the court said, love is love.

8 mins

Love After The Time Of 377

The unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court’s five-judge constitutional bench in Navtej Singh Johar & Ors., decriminalising homosexuality and recognising the constitutional rights of LGBTI persons, has led to a massive outpouring of emotion and celebrations across the country and around the world.

6 mins

Dress Like A Queen

Worker bees by day, queens by night. The drag scene blooms in pockets of a new India where men rejoice in their feminine avatars.

7 mins

A Flashy Head Start

The Telangana CM wrests first-mover advantage by advancing the state assembly polls by eight months.

6 mins

Selling A Pipe Dream

A Gujarat government company once credited with the ‘biggest ever’ natural gas reserve find in the country is now burdened with a Rs 13,000 crore debt and desperately needs a bailout.

7 mins

Pep's City

For top footballers, the season is an ever-lengthening ordeal. Some 108 players from English Premier League clubs played at the World Cup in Russia, more than from any other league; Spain’s top division finished a distant second, providing 78 players.

3 mins

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