• 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 the budget for the Sandra Bullock-George Clooney outerspace flick Gravity.1 [NYT]
• Tiya Sircar voices the first female Star Wars character–a sassy, yet tomboyish heroine named Sabine–since Disney took over the franchise from George Lucas. [io9]
• A 20-year-old Indian man wants to change the name of India’s “skin-colored” crayons, because selling brown-skinned people a standard of “skin-colored” crayons that verge on “peach” makes no sense. [Quartz]
• Boo! Indian skier Himanshu Thakur finishes dead last in the Giant Slalom. That’s 72nd out of 72 competitors. Although there may have been a reason for that: India’s skiers’ didn’t get their equipment on time–which meant they had no real time to actually warm-up to get their A-game on or break their gear in. [DNA India]
• Your favorite One Direction heartthrob and ours, Zayn Malik, gets a bad-ass tattoo of a flower on his wrist. [Sugarscape]
• Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s house in Pakistan is on track to getting a restoration valued at Rs. 80M. [Indian Express]
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Rohin Guha is a contributing editor at The Aerogram. Follow him on Twitter @ohrohin. Find The Aerogram on Facebook or on Twitter @theaerogram.
