https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
Some strange observations for me from the article:
- There's 200M people in the world born into a life where they are/were considered physically untouchable by other "higher-ranked" people around them
- The usage of the label "backwards" in “other backwards classes,” or OBCs. I'll chalk it down to English not being the native language, but "disadvantaged" is more appropriate as "backwards" has a negative meaning.
I wonder if a better solution for the mental health of these people at the IITs is to simply have their own IIT where they make up the bulk of the student population. Then again, they might face discrimination by "upper-caste" professors refusing to work there or being "that" IIT that tech companies shouldn't hire from.
To the Americans on HN: is this type of discrimination comparable to being born as an African American in a city like Baltimore?