• Viswanathan Anand, defending world chess champion, is currently embroiled in a high-stakes match with Norwegian challenger Magnus Carlsen. The two have been holed up at a Hyatt in Chennai for the past few days, duking it out and after three games, they’re stuck in a tie. Currently, they’re on game 4 — the outcome of which should reveal to the world who the next World Chess Champion is. [Hindustan Times]
• A new Bollywood-inspired video game may be hitting the digital shelves soon…over at online gaming and software distributor Steam. While it uses Bollywood jams, the actual gameplay seems a bit sketchy. Click through to learn more, in any event. [Kotaku]
• There’s a top Indian politician who thinks that if you can’t prevent rape from occuring, you should enjoy it. Then he realized that that was probably a dumb-ass thing to say and he recanted, which, like LOLWUT? Dude, we heard you. There are no takesies-backsies if it’s on the record. #SMH. [BBC]
• HOLD THE PHONE. Are you holding it? Good. Because pan-Asian girl group Blush is back with a new single. “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” is a promising tune that probably sounds better in the studio than performed live. It’s also the first post-“We Can’t Stop” single to appropriate “twerk.” Here they are, playing on the Arsenio Hall Show. [Youtube]
• Recommended reading. Contributor and friend of The Aerogram Nushmia Khan writes about experiencing Ashura rituals at the Shiite mosque next door to her family home. A select passage: “I was led into an overflowing room of women in black, no one of them smiling. At the center of the room a leader began chanting, recalling the story of Hussain in Qarbala that I hadn’t yet heard.” [Medium]
• And finally, here’s a free tip from New Girl star Hannah Simone.
Free tip: all men ugly cry.
— Hannah Simone (@HannahSimone) November 13, 2013
Rohin Guha is a contributing editor at The Aerogram. Follow him on Twitter @ohrohin. Find The Aerogram on Twitter @theaerogram.
