While most, if not all, Indian states are inherently casteist, the systemic ways in which it continues to fester in TN shocks me.https://twitter.com/aju000/status/1518436641240543232 …
As a north Indian kid growing up in Bombay, I always grew up with the impression (trickled down from my parents) that Tamilians were educated and progressive... realising only when I was in college how the deep the caste hegemony actually runs.