casteism in these sophisticated Times
Excellent presentation of the truth about the minds and mindset of casteists in India.
October 10th, 2010 | opinion
Dileep Padgaonkar’s review of Meera Kosambi’s book on her grandfather and Buddhist scholar Dharmanand Kosambi (Dharmanand Kosambi: the essential writings, edited by Meera Kosambi, Permanant Black) in The Times of India begins a description of his life thus: ‘Born on October 9, 1876 in a humble Gowd Saraswat Brahmin family in a small village in Portuguese-ruled Goa, Dharmanand, beset with persistent health problems, dropped out of school and was compelled to manage the family’s coconut grove’.
This sentence made me wonder.
Why did Padgaonkar mention Kosambi’s caste?