Highlights of India Today 18th September  2017, issue:   The cover story in this issue - The Big Slide - extends the discourse on the landsliding effects of Goods and Service Tax GST, demonetisation on the Indian economy. The story addresses how and what measures are being taken to revive the economys growth and ponders on the governments next plan of action to tackle the elephant in the room.   The big story - Nirmala Means Business - looks at how Sitharamans appointment as defence minister is more than a symbolic strike for womanhood and how it has to do with turning around the defence ministry with Make in India.   The special report, Concert of Democracies, looks at the Indo-Japanese ties in times of a churning geopolitical turn for India with rising threats from China.   In the Society and Trends section, the focus shifts to the young designers who are defying tradition and creating a new vocabulary of design.     The issue comes with a free magazine: Simply Punjabi