The Aerogram

A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news.

[Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz]

There was two minutes of refreshing before this. LOL.

And Nithya Raman finally overtakes Spencer Pratt in the latest election results drop from LA County.

[BeshearStan @BeshearStan]

A) Indian
B) Female
C) Democrat socialist
D) Harvard and MIT degree in city planning

Its like Nithya Raman was made to make Republicans cope & seethe

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Nithya Raman Closes in on Spencer Pratt as Mayor Vote Count Becomes ‘Hills’-level Drama https://t.co/F1EaSFQacR

[Daniel Miller @DanielNMiller]

BREAKING: Nithya Raman has overtaken Spencer Pratt after the release of the latest voting totals this afternoon — she is now in second place and leads him by 3,113 votes.

[Election Time @ElectionTime_]

🚨BREAKING: 🟦Nithya Raman is projected to finish in the top-two of the open primary for mayor of Los Angeles, advancing to the general election.

Raman has served as an LA city councilmember since 2020 and will face off against incumbent mayor 🟦Karen Bass* in November.

[s @lostinsfictionn]

vintage kantha bomber jacket by ruaa

[The Wire @thewire_in]

A Lived Sociology of Caste

Chandu Maheria's ‘Homes Without Windows’ is a vivid, empathetic and often devastating portrait of Dalit working-class life in urban Gujarat.

@AnandTeltumbde✍️
https://t.co/6ydmScfJ9B

[Mitul Baruah @Majuli_Chapori]

When life gives you a ‘Morothi maas’, just fry it and have it as ‘chakhna’! 🥂
#Majuli

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

A memo suggests prohibiting immigrants from applying for green cards while in the US. Instead, they would have to return to their home country to do it.

https://t.co/ROh0Cm6Sib

✍️Irina D Manta & Cassandra Burke Robertson

Via The Conversation

[s @lostinsfictionn]

bawaree summer 2026 by nidhi tholia

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

I was sent a video of 4 girls being detained by the Taliban in Herat province today. They entered a clothing store, escorted the girls into a van and left.

And with their clampdown on journalism, there’s no info as to why they were arrested/where they’ve been taken.

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

As millions of young and able-bodied men from Nepal have migrated abroad for work, millions of women have remained behind. Many have turned to farming, sustaining the country’s agricultural lifeline. However, they still find themselves at the periphery of decision-making. @anita_zhangg writes: https://t.co/PHYf6E0lEe

[Paras Nath Singh @parasnsingh95]

A woman, Parsi by birth and practice, was denied last rites by Parsi community leaders because she had married a Muslim. Her husband’s community also refused to allow her burial in their graveyard because she had never adopted her husband’s religion and continued to profess Zoroastrianism, the faith into which she was born. Eventually, she was cremated according to Hindu funeral rites on humanitarian grounds.

[Stizz The Wiz @Stizzthewiz]

That Knicks pin 🔥🔥

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Some phone calls are better than others. Congratulations to the New Yorkers who won affordable World Cup tickets.

[Rahiq-e-Bangla @Fateh_E_Bangla]

Bengal's terracotta mosque tradition didn't come from Arabia or Delhi. It came from Bengal's own Buddhist past. The same craft seen at Paharpur (8th century) was revived under native Bengali Sultan Jalaluddin and perfected at the Darasbari Mosque (1479) and Lattan Mosque in Gaur (1519).

[Sikh Coalition @sikh_coalition]

The @sikh_coalition is standing with our sangat in the face of attacks on the Sikh community.

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

Finally, a journalist pressing Trump on his fraud claims -- and he literally short circuits, storming off

Remember the people in your life who chose to support this buffoon. Some of them did it openly. Some of them used code words like "woke" or "trans" or "waste & fraud"

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

While India is handing pristine islands and forests to billionaires, ordinary Albanians are showing the world that a different course is possible.