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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