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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Trolled For ‘Hate Mongering’ Against India’s Brahmins

Twitter India said the poster was handed to Dorsey by a Dalit activist, Dalits are at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Hinduism – when it hosted a closed-door discussion with a group of women to know more about their experience using Twitter (Photo: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images).

By: Radhakrishna N S

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has kicked up a social media storm in India after a picture of him with a placard saying “smash Brahminical patriarchy”, referring to the highest Hindu caste, went viral in one of the company’s fastest-growing markets. The picture, posted on Twitter on Sunday (18) by a journalist who was part of a group of women journalists, activists, writers whom Dorsey met during a visit to India last week, had him clutching a poster of a woman holding up a banner with the line that has offended many Indians. Several prominent Indians, including TV Mohandas Pai, a…

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