India Today Magazine - December 29, 2014

In this issue

Highlights of the issue:-Highlights of India Today issue dated 29th December ,2014. This week's cover story, 'Horror Harvest', looks at the December 16 Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar and discusses how Pakistan is paying a heavy price for nurturing terror. It also asks a crucial question - Can Pakistan switch off the killing machine now?

The Big Story is on the reconversion row. It presents an analysis of the anti-conversion law proposed by the Modi government and if it will infringe on a person's legitimate right to switch religions.

The issue also contains a piece on Rajeshwar Singh, the man tasked with reconversion - or ghar wapsi - in western Uttar Pradesh. He is now a witness in the Samjhauta Express and Mecca Masjid blast cases.

In his column 'National Interest', Shekhar Gupta talks about the Pakistani Establishment's support to the Taliban and why even the Peshawar attack will not fray the delusion it is living under.

The guest column by Arvind Panagariya looks at why Raghuram Rajan's pessimism about Make in India's focus on exports is misplaced.

Shekhar Gupta presents a detailed analysis of the Jharkhand assembly polls in 'Writings on the Wall'. Stability is for the poll-bound state what 'poriborton' was for Bengal, he writes.

A special report on the Kochi-Muziris-Biennale talks about the rare collection of art works that is so covered in the mud and water of a land.

The issue also has three supplements: Simply Gujarati, Simply Mumbai, and Simply Pune.