• Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny and a dozen other things you’ve likely watched but don’t remember, is now an e-mail female: She’s dating Shiva Ayyadurai, the inventor of e-mail. [Us Weekly]
• Here’s a pretty nifty primer on the booming sari rental market in the U.S. [BuzzFeed]
• I’ve seen India’s version of the Old Spice Guy and he is kind of underwhelming. See for yourself below. Then disagree with me in the comments section if you’re so compelled! [Vogue India]
• As you can see from the Sri Lanka iTunes Singles Chart, Savage Garden’s 16 year-old pop standard “Truly Madly Deeply” is currently holding strong in the top 3. The real news is that Priyanka Chopra is in the Top 10! America might not be listening, but someone, somewhere is! [iTunes Store Sri Lanka, but who knows if the chart will be shuffled up by the time you actually click onto it]
• Crazy, nuts, and all effed up: 30 million people globally are living in some sort of slavery. More effed up: 16.5 million of those people are all based in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. [IBN Live]
• Probably unrelated to the above: Hyundai India has just rolled out its 5 millionth car. [Times of India]
