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I came across a decent journalism by "The Swaddle" recently, they discuss how upper caste social capital translates to merit in multiple arenas of life in India
by SandraBucky 3y ago
I came across a decent journalism by "The Swaddle" recently, they discuss how upper caste social capital translates to merit in multiple arenas of life in India. They looked into IITs and made the following piece.
https://theswaddle.com/the-deserving-and-the-damned/ https://theswaddle.com/the-deserving-and-the-damned/
This also sheds some light into state of startups and people behind it, as more than 60% Indian unicorns has at-least one of their founder from an IIT.
https://restofworld.org/2023/iit-graduates-dominate-tech/ https://restofworld.org/2023/iit-graduates-dominate-tech/
- rramadass 3y agoThanks for the links, they seem pretty decent. However the phrase Correlation does not imply Causation needs to be kept in mind when reading these types of articles. You might find the links in my comment here also useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333418