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anti-India? Do you mean anti-highest-Indian-caste or something?

both the OP and your citation are her complaining about a tech CEO being Brahmin and avoiding the caste conversation...

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Why is the Indian American CEO obligated to discuss caste?

Must the Jewish founders of the FAANG companies share their views on the Israel-Palestine conflict?

> "If he can make passionate statements about Google’s (diversity equity and inclusion) commitments in the wake of George Floyd, he absolutely should be making those same commitments to the context he comes from where he is someone of privilege," she added.

Any corporate leader of any identity should be able to condemn any kind of bigotry that may be occurring at their company. The targets of bigotry have a right to know the leader has their back. It doesn't depend on the identity of the leader, the perpetrator of the bigotry, or the target of the bigotry. And this is not a request to comment on events in distant lands.

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Is the Israeli-Palestine conflict happening in their office?

I’d certainly hope the CEO would say something if their Israeli employees and Palestinian employees started firing rockets at each other on work time.

It's not even certain that he's Brahmin. The Saiva Vellalars (a lower caste group) seem to believe he's one of them.

I don't think anything exists on the English language internet about that. (I doubt Saiva Vellalars hangout there, but I also have no idea who they are.) Wheras so many people insist he is Brahmin that if you enter "google CEO caste" into Google search, the algorithm spits out "Brahmin" (this is more of an amusing detail)

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