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Big Tech Imports India s Caste Legacy To Silicon Valley. But There s Hope Big Tech Imports India s Caste Legacy To Silicon Valley. But There s Hope Welcomed as the rock star leader of the world s most innovative company, he reminisced about skipping classes and meeting his college girlfriend now his wife.
Amit Jatav is a Dalit from Karauli, in the northwestern state of Rajasthan.
On a sunny day in early 2017, Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc. s chief executive officer, returned to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in West Bengal, to speak before 3,500 students. Welcomed as the rock star leader of the world s most innovative company, he reminisced about skipping classes and meeting his college girlfriend now his wife. He also pitched Google to the soon-to-be-graduates in attendance. How many wanted to work there, the interviewer asked. Hundreds of hands went up. Wow, maybe we should open a campus in Kharagpur, Pichai joked.
California s Legal Ground in Battling Caste Discrimination Takes Centre Stage in Historic Cisco Case
The California government used sections of the Civil Rights Act, which emerged out of the struggle against segregation, to file a lawsuit on grounds that a Dalit had been discriminated against by his upper caste supervisors.
A visitor walks past a Cisco advertising panel as she looks at her mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 27, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Albert Gea/File Photo
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San Francisco: A California trial court has stayed the hearing of petitions filed by US multinational Cisco seeking to dismiss a caste-discrimination lawsuit against the company. The hearings, which were to begin on Tuesday, have been postponed to September.
The Hindu American Foundationâs warped position on the Cisco caste-discrimination case 28 February 2021
The attempt to sue Cisco Systems for alleged caste-based discrimination at the company is being watched as a potential landmark in the United States. The Hindu American Foundation has denounced it as an effort âto decide the scope and nature of Hindu religious teachings and practices.â David Paul Morris / Bloomberg / Getty Images
The attempt to sue Cisco Systems for alleged caste-based discrimination at the company is being watched as a potential landmark in the United States. The Hindu American Foundation has denounced it as an effort âto decide the scope and nature of Hindu religious teachings and practices.â
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Indian Americans, while broadly still supportive of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have mixed opinions about India’s trajectory as a democracy, according to a new report released on Tuesday.
The Indian American Attitudes Survey, conducted in September 2020, recorded the responses of 1,200 Indian Americans to a series of questions on how connected they are to India and how they view Indian political developments. A significant 39% of the respondents believe India is currently on the wrong track, while 36% believe it is on the right track.
With a population of over 4 million, Indian Americans are now the second largest immigrant group in America, and wooing them has been an important element of the Modi government’s foreign policy. Support for him, the survey shows, is highest among Hindus and Republicans in the diaspora.