In this issue

Highlights of India Today –19th October 2020 issue:

The Cover Story talks about Dalit women bearing the brunt of caste and gender violence, especially rape, in India.

The Big Story this week talks about experts saying how we need to slow down in our hunt for a guaranteed Covid treatment.

The issue also deals with how the world's largest navy is aggressively expanding its presence in the Indian Ocean region.

BJP'S PLAN B?

The race for Bihar has suddenly opened up, just weeks ahead of a three-phase assembly election, which gets under way on October 28. The NDA alliance is officially riven, with Chirag Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) deciding to categorically back the BJP even while declaring war against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) or JD(U).

5 mins

WHY SUKHBIR BROKE FREE

On October 1, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal launched tractor rallies to Chandigarh from the three holiest seats of Sikhism in Punjab— Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib in Anandpur Sahib, Akal Takht Sahib in Amritsar and Takht Sri Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo—against the Centre’s new farm laws, over which his party walked out of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on September 26.

5 mins

THE 40 SQUADRON MIRAGE

Indian Air Force (IAF) transport helicopters, gunships, transport aircraft and fighters, including the newly inducted Rafales, were speedily deployed in Ladakh to support the Indian Army in May this year, when New Delhi realised the state of play—China’s gameplan of a coercive military deployment along the LAC (line of actual control).

2 mins

America's Caste System

Caste The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson Allen Lane 476 pages

3 mins

CLARITY, BUT NO CLOSURE

On September 29, the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI’s) enquiry into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput crossed a major milestone. A seven-member panel of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) submitted a forensic report to the CBI, concurring with the assessment of doctors from Mumbai’s RN Cooper Municipal General Hospital—that Rajput’s death was a case of suicide, and not murder.

4 mins

Rising Crimes Against Dalit Women

Dalit women bear the brunt of caste and gender violence, especially rape, in india. What makes them particularly vulnerable?

10+ mins

MAMATA GOES TO WAR

The Trinamool Congress chief dusts off her ‘Ma-Maati-Manush’ slogan to pitch the 2021 assembly election as a battle to save ‘motherland’ Bengal from ‘outsider’ BJP

10 mins

CHINA'S MARITIME CHALLENGE

The world’s largest navy is aggressively expanding its presence in the Indian Ocean region. Inside India’s plan to take on the Chinese PLAN

6 mins

A HORROR FILM OF ITS OWN

The industry withdraws into a shell as allegations of drug abuse and nepotism are levelled against it

7 mins

ONCE UPON A CRIME

As brutal crimes and lurid reporting dominate the headlines, ‘true crime’ podcasts are the latest medium to feed our appetite for the dark side

4 mins

A Convenient Whodunnit

Chetan Bhagat’s latest novel exceeds expectations. Particularly if you embark on it with none

2 mins

The Religion of Love

In her debut novel, Karuna Ezara Parikh asks some pertinent questions about faith and the politics of identity

2 mins

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