• There is a small hotel in India…named Hotel WhatsApp. Well, then. [Twitter]
• But in news pertaining to the actual mobile app that Facebook acquired for $19B: Here’s an awesome essay about how WhatsApp bridged together generations of a single family spread across four continents. [Quartz]
• One of our fine readers saw our report on South Asian actors who could’ve (should’ve?) been cast as Freddie Mercury in the late Queen frontman’s biopic — and then started a petition to get the filmmakers to actually consider a brown person instead of Ben Whishaw. [CREDO]
• Meet Ani K. He’s a Kerala-based painter who has created more than 1,000 objets d’art…with his tongue. [GlobalPost]
• Delays caused by protests by laborers at Bangladeshi garment factories have curbed progress there. [WSJ]
• Here is a photo essay documenting the cruel and inhumane conditions under which performing monkeys are held in Pakistan. [HuffPo]
• Your tax dollars at work! South Carolina governor Nikki Haley tweeted a selfie of her with her husband from the White House.
Date night at the White House. http://t.co/CWckz9r4ct
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) February 23, 2014
Rohin Guha is a contributing editor at The Aerogram. Follow him on Twitter @ohrohin. Find The Aerogram on Facebook or on Twitter @theaerogram.
