Hot News Mix: This Woman is Freaking Out the Restaurant Industry
• Meet Saru Jayaraman — a labor activist who’s ruffling the feathers of heavyweight restaurant industry lobbyists by working to increase the minimum wage for … Read more
Hot News Mix: Catching Up With the Child Stars of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
The Slumdog Kids Have a Reunion: Can you believe it’s been 5 years since Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture at the Oscars? The incredibly talented … Read more
Smithsonian’s ‘Beyond Bollywood’ Opens, Putting the Spotlight on Indians in America
Today marks the opening of Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation, a landmark exhibition on view until next year at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. … Read more
Hot News Mix: A Young Conservationist’s Quest to Save India’s Man-Eating Tiger
Call Me Nazim or The Tiger: CNN’s Moni Basu has a gripping longread about Nazim Khan, an Indian wildlife conservationist who is determined to save … Read more
Hot News Mix: L.L. Cool J Pays Tribute to Rising Indian Artist Inkquisitive & More
"@Inkquisitive: Did you know Ladies Love Cool James? @llcoolj #Art #Illustration #LLCoolJ #LL pic.twitter.com/1zn1EnvaUi" Talented. — LLCOOLJ (@llcoolj) February 17, 2014 L.L. Cool J’s New … Read more
Hot News Mix: A Cheap Paper Test for Cancer, Mindy Kaling’s Standout Style & More
A Paper Test for Cancer. Sangeeta Bhatia has developed a low-cost paper diagnostic for cancer. The MIT professor developed a simple, cheap, paper test that could … Read more
Hot News Mix: Welcome to the Hotel WhatsApp, A Petition for a Desi Freddie Mercury, + More
• There is a small hotel in India…named Hotel WhatsApp. Well, then. [Twitter] • But in news pertaining to the actual mobile app that Facebook … Read more
‘India’s Got Talent’ Contestant Akshat Singh Performs to Macklemore in this Bonus Clip from ‘Ellen’
Fans of The Ellen DeGeneres Show were introduced to young India’s Got Talent contestant Akshat Singh earlier this week after he performed some of the … Read more
Hot News Mix: Kal Penn to Co-Star in New Show by the Creator of ‘Breaking Bad’
Kal Penn is returning to television this fall. He’s joining CBS’s new venture Battle Creek, which is the brainchild of Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) … Read more
Hot News Mix: Obama’s the Face of Viagra in Pakistan, Disney’s First ‘Star Wars’ Heroine, + More
• President Obama is apparently the face of contraband Viagra in Pakistan. [AFP via YouTube] • True or false? India’s mission to Mars cost less than … Read more
