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How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon Valley
For nearly half a century, IIT admissions have been subject to a reservation system that’s still hotly debated on the campuses.
19 Mar 2021, 01:36 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On a sunny day in early 2017, Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc.’s chief executive officer, returned to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in West Bengal, to speak before 3,500 students. Welcomed as the “rock star” leader of the “world’s most innovative company,” he reminisced about skipping classes and meeting his college girlfriend—now his wife. He also pitched Google to the soon-to-...
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