· June, 2009

Stories about India from June, 2009

Caste Based Communities on Orkut Mirror India's Splintered Society

  9 June 2009

I have written before about Shiv Sena's militant approach towards Orkut communities critical of the party, its leader Bal Thakeray, or its Hindutva ideology. Caste-based communities on Orkut are another disturbing example of online communities mirroring the splintered nature of Indian society.