I can't reduce anyone's experience and don't know about this specific situation. Cisco is an American company and while I worked there in San Jose, I didn't enc

I can't reduce anyone's experience and don't know about this specific situation. Cisco is an American company and while I worked there in San Jose, I didn't encounter any notion of birth-based caste discrimination, which in any case I and others would have opposed resolutely, simply because we were in the "land of the free". Even in India, Dalits are empowered by law to report against discrimination and avail of Indian equivalent of affirmative action. Their situation, while not perfect, has improved considerably over the several few decades. That being said, there may be some anachronistic idiots in responsible positions of power who could have caused this. I hope that courts investigate and reach the right conclusion and nip this from the root and Cisco, if involved, learns the right lessons.