Unsuprising that the Western press and academia has the nuance of a brick, perhaps because their own history is so grotesquely checkered.
I wouldn't trust Sai Deepak with anything, he's a nut job who for some reason sounds eloquent to the upper class Hindus.
This is true for any demagogues btw. It’s why Jordan Peterson appeals so much to upper class White Americans.
> Deepak mentions that 15% of those classified as SC/STs also wear the sacred thread
My point is that this is incorrect.
edit: asking this question to clarify since the other reply(ies) take this as a given.
This is incorrect. I can vouch this is a relatively common practice in Maharashtra.
There will always be an element of the intangible in any effort by the Western mind to understand India. The experience is one of irreducible complexity, the subject receding from attempts to form a mental framework that permits nuanced understanding.
This documentary is 50 years old. Nothing has changed.