Highlights of India Today Hindi magazine dated October 17, 2012. Cover Story: India Today Hindi’s cover story Chote Shahron Ki Jawan Raatein is about the night life of small cities. Celeb DJ nights. Bollywood specials. Pool parties. Move over metros, the weekend action has come to small towns. Culturally akin to Ludhiana, Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh is also gearing up to meet the globally inspired sensibilities of its professionals and corporate scions who are back in the city with an overseas education and exposure to western nightlife. Like metropolitan India, which learnt to work hard and party harder more than a decade ago, small town India is rocking with its own nights of bedazzling lights. Paryavaran (Khas Rapat): Hariyali Ka Atank For three years, the Jairam-Jayanthi regime has jinxed development with an obstructionist approach in the environment ministry. Green hurdles must go if Manmohan Singh’s born-again reformist zeal has to make any headway. Purvottar (Khas Rapat): Sangharsha Viraam Ki Jameen Per Maut Ke Saudagaron Ki Fasal Peace in the North-east has come at a heavy price. Rebel groups freely brandish arms, extort protection money from locals, run parallel governments and fuel conflict elsewhere in the country even as the Centre engages them in talks. Sarkar (Rashtra): Cabinet Ferbadal Mein DMK Ka Adanga With its largest ally not interested, any Government revamp will be a Congress game of musical chairs. Bihar (Rashtra): Virodh Pradarshnon Se Halkan Teachers turn Chief Minister’s ambitious campaign into a platform of protest against administration. Haryana (Rashtra): Ghoonghat Mere Kisi Kaam Ka Nahin… Rural women throw off the veil to empower themselves. Will the rebellion spread?