In 2021, Mr Kumar wrote in the Deccan Herald newspaper that though he often faced racism while growing up in Chicago as a person of colour, he realised later that he was also the “beneficiary of the caste system back in India”. The caste system dates back over 3,000 years and divides Hindu society into rigid hierarchical groups.
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