India's engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system. India's engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020
Whenever Benjamin Kaila, a database administrator who immigrated from India to the United States in 1999, applies for a job at a U.S. tech company, he prays that there are no other Indians during the in-person interview. That's because Kaila is a Dalit, or member of the lowest-ranked castes within India's system of social hierarchy, formerly referred to as "untouchables."