In this issue

Highlights of India Today 31st December 2018, issue:
In this special anniversary issue, India Today dives deep into the challenges faced by rural India. The issue, 'Naya Bharat', tracks some of the most profound economic and development changes sweeping rural India over the past four decades.

The issue also highlights the work done by social workers who are making a difference across the rural landscape and are leading their communities to self-sufficiency. The issue also has a special section devoted to rural youth icons and to artists who are putting issues of caste discrimination and identity on canvas and designers who are redefining rural chic.

India Today's comprehensive rural number crunching also throws up interesting trends about changes sweeping rural India.

Printer's Devil In The Details

The government was back on the defensive a week after the Supreme Court dismissed petitions seeking an investigation into the Rs 60,000 crore purchase of Rafale fighter aircraft.

3 mins

Climate Circus And Lack Of Will

As the year draws to a close, it has been put on record by scientists that this has been one of the warmest years of the past decade, rife with heat waves, rising sea levels and that most of these find their roots in climate change.

2 mins

A Whiff Of Justice, 34 Years After

In August this year, Rahul Gandhi, speaking before an audience of parliamentarians and local leaders in London, distanced his family and the Congress party from the carnage that followed his grandmother Indira Gandhi’s assassination in October 1984.

2 mins

It Was A Trap, People Were Waiting To Nab Me

“I am Hamid Ansari and I am not a spy,” says the man who has just returned to his family and his country after six years in a Pakistani prison. Ansari says he had entered Pakistan for love, and when reality struck, he was caught in the India-Pakistan diplomatic heat. After 2,232 days in captivity, he speaks to Geeta Mohan.

2 mins

The New Bharat

Hope and grand ambition course through the great Indian hinterland even amid the enveloping gloom of rural distress. Catch the winning spirit.

10 mins

Of Dreams & Drapes

Rooted in small-town values and affecting an old-world charm, a crop of new designers is digging deep into history and nostalgia to make a style statement.

7 mins

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