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Payal Mohta is a freelance journalist based in Mumbai, India. She covers global development, gender justice and public health issues and her work has been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the Washington Post.
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Many US tech workers come from India, where the social order is based on a hierarchy with ‘Brahmins’ at the top and ‘Dalits’ at the bottom.
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India’s coronavirus testers risk both infection and discrimination
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India’s coronavirus lockdown is forcing women to do all the work
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