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.
As more Covid-19 tests are conducted in India, health workers say they face difficult working conditions, and are treated like ‘untouchables’.
Before the nationwide lockdown was imposed in March, many middle and upper middle class families were used to having at least one domestic helper.