LOL all this reflects is comical California woke-max hothouse farce. Any Indian American knows that discrimination on the basis of caste is basically like reason # one billion gazillion on their list of worries.
For a supposed scholar of medieval India to cheer on policies that encourage stereotyping and bias against Indian American immigrants is well kind of stunning but par for the course for people who know this mediocre scholar of a third rate campus at Rutgers.
Truschke seems to have been smarting since served with a defamation lawsuit by HAF and since Rutgers backed away from its name being affiliated with the poisonous DGH conference. She has been kind of unhinged and incendiary since then.
Someone at Rutgers really needs to talk to her because if I were a Hindu student on her campus I would honestly be scared of her rhetoric.

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Hey @sfchronicle you say you deliver "the Bay Area’s best journalism every day". Well your article on the UC-Davis anti-caste discrimination policy by @Shwanika fell short of that standard.
It is like the Rolling Stone UVa Rape or Duke Lacrosse Rape case of reporting except much more shoddily written and less professional than those articles were believe it or not.
In this thread I outline numerous reasons why you have spread sensationalistic blood libel type anti-Hindu accusations.
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Just managed to read this incredibly hard to believe article in the SF Chronicle (it was behind a paywall but I used the Wayback Machine archive) by @Shwanika
Dear Shwanika Narayan all I can say is that you really need to learn how to be a seasoned reporter and not just be so gullible that you repeat incredible claims without doing any legwork to verify them.
Your article quotes "J. Kaur" a UC Davis senior of Indian descent as making the absolutely 100% take it to the bank fabricated quote that students are seeking same-caste room-mates.
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