Caste In The Corridors Of Power: How India’s Elite Institutions Perpetuate Inequality

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Caste in modern India has not vanished; it has adapted. It now thrives in algorithms, policy loopholes & silent complicity.

Years ago, in late spring, under the brooding canopies of banyan trees lining the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, a letter circulated quietly, but its resonance was anything but soft. The resignation came from a professor whose departure was less a career shift than an indictment.

His letter described a climate not of academic friction or administrative disillusionment, but of something more entrenched—an invisible yet unrelenting caste system that gnawed at the very heart of an institution celebrated for meritocracy.



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