New Delhi: India is a caste-biased nation. No accomplishments of any individual here can ever miss the caste-guage of Indians. Then how could PV Sindhu or Sakshi Malik be spared?
Even as Sindhu took on World No 1 Carolina Marin and brought home the silver from Rio Olympics, people of twin states of Andhra Pradesh- Telangana- Sindhu’s home state were plagued by a different concern. Over the last few days, the people of the said two states have fanatically googled ‘P V Sindhu caste’!

The Hindu, on Saturday, reported that both states claimed Sindhu was their daughter or ‘ammayi’. The paper went on to say that people looked up her caste also because her parents had a love marriage, a situation where caste differences are often ignored.

The search on P V Sindhu’s caste peaked around August 20 and Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Haryana happened to be the top states that were curious to know about her caste.

Phrase Sakshi Malik Caste too happens to have been highly searched on the day Malik registered victory and is still an active search in states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan etc.