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Suraj Yengde

Suraj Yengde is the author of Caste Matters and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Written in large red block lettering reminiscent of blood, the text reads “Caste No Bar.”

Apartheid in Fancy Dress

Indian cinema loves love. It celebrates love between the poor and the rich; love across the lines of religion, region, and language; love that upends conventional notions of gender and sexuality. A foreign viewer of such films would be forgiven for concluding that India is a ...