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Tuesday, May 4 2010

Barbara Ehrenreich and the Brahmin Fantastic

By Nandini Ramachandran

In Barbara Ehrenreich's Bait and Switch, she experiences an exclusive corporate culture in America that is disturbingly similar to India's privileged genetic intelligentsia; also know as the caste system.

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