Hot News Mix: Transgender Woman Runs for Parliament in Post-Sec. 377 India, Hari Kondabolu on Fresh Air + More

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• Even in a post-Sec. 377 India, awesome miracles can happen: A transgender woman running for parliament in the motherland! [Jezebel]

•Comedian Hari Kondabolu appears on NPR’s Fresh Air today with host Terry Gross. [NPR] [The Aerogram]

• Oh haven’t you heard? Some kid asked Miss America to prom, his school suspended him, and now, she’s coming to his defense. Sure, he may have dickishly interrupted her in the middle of a speech, but you have to hand it to Nina Davuluri, ALL AMERICAN HEROINE, for still asking the school to reconsider the kid’s suspension. [HollywoodLife]

• The White House has named Professor Rajendra Singh as one of its “10 Solar Champions of Change”–a role that charges Singh with spurring the deployment of solar technology across the country. [Times of India]

• A Texas mom charged with killing her 10 year-old son and leaving his body in the bathtub for days says she did so in accordance with Hindu customs. [Times Of India]

• Meet Neha Valluri: One of the few young Indian-American women to join the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. [Oregon Live]

• Noted Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was wounded by gunmen on Saturday. Some sources link the gunmen to the nation’s government–although, no substantiative evidence has surfaced. Meanwhile, Mir is in recovery. [CNN]

• As the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 stalls, K.S. Narendran, who had this to say earlier about his wife who was on board the doomed flight, has written more words–and the entire thing is definitely worth a read. [The Hindu]

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

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