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Highlights of India Today –9th August 2021 issue:

The cover story this week highlights the India-China dispute along the Himalayan border in detail and how the loss of trust between the two nuclear powers could spiral into conflict

This week's issue also presents India Today's Best Universities Survey for 2021

FINDING COMMON GROUND

On July 25, the Congress party’s official Twitter handle put out a tweet with a photograph of Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and a little explainer riffing on Union home minister Amit Shah’s now famous “Aap chronology samajhiye” comment. Shah, of course, was implying an Opposition conspiracy to stall Parliament, but the meme was turning the charge on its head to suggest that the Trinamool Congress national general secretary was a victim of the Pegasus spyware during the 2021 Bengal election. The timing was no accident—Mamata was arriving on a five-day visit to the national capital the next day to hold discussions with Opposition leaders on possible strategies to take on the BJP in 2024.

5 mins

BORDER BATTLES

The violent clash at the disputed Lailapur-Vairengte border between Assam and Mizoram on July 26, which resulted in the death of six Assam Police personnel, is a grim reminder of the simmering tensions among the seven Indian states collectively known as India’s Northeast. While inter-state border disputes are not new in the region, what makes this incident unique is the clash between the police forces of the two states and the alleged use of light machine guns by the Mizoram Police to open fire on Assam Police personnel.

5 mins

Line Of No Control

China expands its military aviation infrastructure on the tibetan plateau even as the indian army begins a great rebalance of forces—from the western border with pakistan to the northern border with china. The loss of trust and absence of protocols mean miscalculations could spiral into conflict

10+ mins

STRUGGLING TO REGAIN CONTROL

Rahul is trying to change the rules of engagement in the party and build a new team. Will he succeed?

9 mins

A YEDI-MADE FORMULA

The BJP picks Yediyurappa loyalist Basavaraj Bommai as its new Karnataka chief minister with an eye on the 2023 state election and the crucial Lingayat vote

6 mins

THE DIRTY PICTURE

BUSINESSMAN RAJ KUNDRA’S ARREST IN AN ALLEGED PORN RACKET HAS BROUGHT INTO FOCUS INDIA’S LAWS ON PORNOGRAPHY, REIGNITING THE DEBATE OVER DEFINITIONS OF OBSCENITY AND EROTICA

8 mins

EASY ON THE EAR

TWO YEARS AFTER HE MADE IT TO BARACK OBAMA’S PLAYLIST, PRATEEK KUHAD IS LETTING A SENSE OF EASE DEFINE HIS LIFE AND MUSIC

4 mins

THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN

Though Toofaan and Sarpatta Parambarai both released on Amazon Prime Video in July, the two boxing films fight wholly different battles

3 mins

THE HIPPY'S DISCOVERY OF INDIA

A new documentary shows how poet Allen Ginsberg kickstarted the backpacker revolution

2 mins

Taking Buddha to the World

By examining the impact of an 1879 Edwin Arnold poem, Jairam Ramesh has helped map the global inf luence of Buddhist thought

2 mins

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