Highlights of India Today Hindi issue dated May 8th, 2013. Cover Story: India Today Hindi’s cover story Is Desh Na Rehna Gudiya. A five-year-old is fighting for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. Grievously injured, she lives to see another day. A thousand kilometers away, in Nagpur, another four-year-old is lying in a coma in a hospital Intensive Care Unit. She lies tethered to a ventilator, with a broken body and serious brain injury. Raped brutally on April 15 and 17, respectively, their little lives have rocked the nation and raised a painful question: Is this no country for children? Beware the dark underbelly of a nation in transition. Coming out of the woodwork is a shadowy figure, a predator who weaves perverse sexual fantasies on easy prey, children. He is not just any criminal. Nor is he yet another rapist. He is more of a next-door neighbour, a relative or a family friend, who looks perfectly normal until the day he decides to strike. Karnataka (Vidhansabha Chunaav-2013) BJP Past, Congress Mast Lekin Trishanku Ka Khatra A faceless Congress tries to make best use of the ruins of BJP’s first southern mandate. Rajiv Shukla (Shaksiyat) Jod-Jugaad Ki Sanskriti Ka Rajdoot The glib and affable IPL chief is the political and cricket world’s go-to man in every crisis. West Bengal (Rashtra) Bengal Ka Chaalbaaz Sudipta Sen used business guile and political clout to run a vastly successful Ponzi scheme until his luck ran out. Sarkar (Rashtra) CBI Ke Pher Mein Phanse Manmohan The latest twists in the 2G and coal scams further expose Manmohan Singh’s involvement. IIT (Khas Rapat) Kya Fauladi Brand IIT Bikhar Raha Hai? Hasty expansion, faculty shortage and falling student standards are taking the sheen off India’s best Engineering brand. KaranJeet Kaur Vohra (Baatcheet) “Mera Parivaar Hi Mere Liye Sab Kuch Hai” A exclusive interview of international porn star Sunny Leone about her life and work.
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