Highlights of India Today issue dated April 7, 2014 The Cover Story this issue, ‘Parachute Politicians,’ is on a motley crew of stars, socialites and sportsmen who have gatecrashed the Lok Sabha election carnival. The election coverage in this issue has sketches of several high-profile MPs from Madhya Pradesh who are in the reckoning once again in Elections 2014. There is also a special interview with Jaswant Singh, who has just quit the BJP. The story, ‘In Search of the Southern Wave,’ talks about the BJP’s attempts in the South where it is seeking to break its southern jinx by stitching grand alliances in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. But Karnataka still remains its best hope. The sport section has a story on BCCI chief S Srinivasan who is hanging on for dear life to his post even as the Supreme Court has ordered that he resign and that Sunil Gavaskar be given charge of the cricket body. The health section draws attention to a brave new world of procedures, gadgets and tests that are knocking at our hospital doors. The India Today issue this week has four free magazines, Spice, Simply Punjabi, Simply Hyderabad and Simply Pune with it.
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