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"a day might come in the rest of India where you ask two young men on a college campus what caste the other is—and each will say he doesn’t even know"
I doubt that day might ever come as we are a "Vibrant Democracy" and one or the other caste will always be backward whatever be the time period.
And what a rhetorical blabbering in the Article. It seems Tamilnadu is the most advance and "equality supporting" state among the United States of "India"
Abhimanyu