Highlights of India Today Telugu issue dated October 29th, 2013. The issue carried Cover Story on ‘Hymenoplsty', an surgery that restores hymen. The story discuss that why the surgeries are increased at South Indian cities in recent years and social aspects behind this. Big Story The Challenger' projects on Arvind Kejriwal's aggressive campaign in the Delhi Assembly elections and how it is redefining the politics. Special report on recent Philin storm 'The Storm Stoppers', is about the inside account of how a handful of men averted certain catastrophe when Phailin struck, reversing the paradigm of disaster management in India. How Monmohan Singh's defense in coalgate scam crumbles further as CBI names former coal secretary P.C. Parakh in the FIR discussed in a story 'The Besieged' on Nation Section. "Sex as Trade and Tradition" reveals that prostitution become a business for the living in the Bedia families, which has consent of their community. The main story from Andhra Pradesh is "Srikakulam’s Sorrow". The north coastal Srikakulam district has suffered devastation in the wake of the Phailin cyclone but loss of life was minimized because of the high level of preparedness and reliable forecasts. However, there are huge economic losses. The cost of the suffering is huge though it could have been worse. In Telugu Nadi (Radar) section - Police and villagers clashed at the Devaragattu festival in Kurnool district; Double murders in Vijayawada- - and other stories are carried.