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Highlights of India Today 25th February 2019, issue:
Sixty million first-time women voters will take part in this year's general election. This week's India Today magazine cover story -- 'Why Her Vote Counts' -- asks if women will cast the decisive vote in this crucial electoral battle.

The issue also features interviews with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, former Union Minister P Chidambaram and Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora.

Don't miss 'Box Office Politics' -- a special report on political cinema -- and 'The Inheritance of Loss', which explores how three ex-BJP CMs ae facing the indignities of defeat and the sharp end of inner party rivalry months after losing power.

The issue also features two supplements: Simply Chennai and Home.

Modi's Northeast Gamble

On February 9, addressing a gathering of nearly 200,000 people in Changsari near Guwahati, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lamented the fact that iconic singer and musician Bhupen Hazarika, who in January had been awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously by the Union government, had not received the honour in his lifetime.

3 mins

Decoding Das Capital

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), under its new governor Shaktikanta Das, seems to be heading for a ‘course correction’ after the acrimonious war of words with the government just a couple of months ago, when Urjit Patel was at the helm.

3 mins

The Great Indian (S) Election

The greater reliance on data and new forms of communication in India’s electoral campaigns has created a cottage industry of political consultants and data experts who lend their services to political parties and candidates, mapping constituencies and helping them target voters through these new tools.

3 mins

BSY ‘Tape' Ties BJP In Knots

The audio tape of Yeddyurappa’s alleged attempts to buy over JD(S) MLAs has left the BJP red faced and party legislators fidgety.

2 mins

Another Raje Joins Battle?

Will Priyadarshini Raje replace husband Jyotiraditya as the Congress’s Guna candidate?

2 mins

Why Women Voters Will Make or Break Parties In 2019?

With women choosing to vote in unprecedented numbers, they can now make or break political parties. They are increasingly following their own priorities. Will they cast the decisive vote in 2019?

9 mins

Still Room For Other Friends

Akhilesh Yadav’s remarks about the Congress being integral to an anti-BJP alliance shows a subtle shift in strategy. Is it the Priyanka effect?

2 mins

CAG In The Rafale Wheel

The auditor’s report may have cleared the Modi government on the aircraft’s price, but it questions the seven-year process that picked rafale as the lowest bidder

6 mins

Gully Boy Socks It To Us

Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy elevates the Bollywood musical. Co-written by Reema Kagti and Akhtar, it has many elements, relatively rare, in mainstream Bollywood: intelligence, gritty realism, exploration of class and minority issues, and radical feminism—all driven by a pulsating rap score.

2 mins

Empty Shots

Life is unfair if you’re a woman and a support system of female friends and a bartender cum-friend to feed you shots any time, helps. Or so I’m led to believe by Four More Shots Please! (Amazon Prime).

2 mins

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