Hot News Mix: India’s First-Ever LGBT Radio Station Reacts to Hateful Supreme Court Ruling + More

• India’s first LGBT radio station, Bangalore-based Q Radio, reacts to some rather heartbreaking news about the Supreme Court re-criminalizing LGBT identity the same way most of us did when we heard it. [LiveMint]

• Bollywood playback singing goddess Alisha Chinai’s not too pleased with the news either. [Twitter]

• Fancy reading the entire text of the hateful ruling? Your search ends here. [India Supreme Court]

• Sadly, flawless icon Priyanka Chopra has shown a crack in her façade however, not offering any kind of acknowledgment or furor over this ruling — nothing like Chinai or even her Bollywood colleagues Karan Johar and Aamir Khan. At least she’s been ranked Maxim India‘s Hottest Woman of 2013? It’s the little things! [The Huffington Post]

• Also, she has had a little time to post for some fancy new photos and have a chat with Paper Magazine. Nevermind the tired ol’ “LOL she’s famous, but not in America!” angle. [Paper]

• Maybe irony’s the word here: Despite being the only country where cows could cause traffic to come to a total standstill, India could become the world’s largest beef exporter. People aren’t too happy about that. [Reuters]

• The Universal Society of Hinduism would like representation on the Oklahoma capitol grounds in the form of a large Hanuman statue.  Before you tut-tut the presence of Hindus in Oklahoma — a place not exactly reputed for its religious tolerance — consider this: Hindus are the fourth-largest faith in the U.S. Right on. [Raw Story]

• A jerk in the great state of Washington beat a Sikh cab driver until he suffered kidney failure. And he’s getting 40 months in jail for it. Too lenient. [Los Angeles Times]

• Is this news? [looks at Kishwer, Lakshmi, and Pavani for direction] Oh ok. Ahem. And finally, President Obama has been spotted buying a copy of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland. He also bought a copy of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. [Deccan Chronicle]

(Photo via Priya Arora)

Rohin Guha is a contributing editor at The Aerogram. Follow him on Twitter @ohrohin. Find The Aerogram on Twitter @theaerogram.