On a Sunday afternoon in Sayeed Nagar, Pune I follow a friend into the back lanes of a Muslim Neighborhood as he head to buy meat. Beef was clearly one third the cost of goat meat, affordable for low income India. My friend is a caste Hindu. I saw an Abaya store after a year and beef was sold openly in a homogeneous space. These are invisible spaces of a public which are hidden behind residential townships that are inhabited by NRI investors and the IT Elite. Yet, these low income minority areas are valuable to the mainstream as votebanks.
I could not imagine any savarnas to be here. There are multitudes in every city.
Change Thinker 