Growing up in Kolkata in the 1970s, caste was not a big part of my life. You knew it existed of course, from the bride wanted ads and occasional distasteful references to somebody being chhoto...
source https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/tasting-economics/the-taste-of-erasure-on-class-caste-and-culinary-amnesia/
source https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/tasting-economics/the-taste-of-erasure-on-class-caste-and-culinary-amnesia/