A Bengaluru-based entrepreneur and CEO has courted controversy with a photo he captioned, “Brahmin genes”. Anuradha Tiwari, CEO of content writing company JustBurstOut, yesterday posted a picture of herself on social media platform X in which she was seen flaunting her muscles.
Bengaluru CEO Anuradha Tiwari at the centre of casteism debate (X/@talk2anuradha)
“Brahmin genes,” she controversially captioned the picture. Take a look at the post below:
Anuradha Tiwari has been a vocal advocate for the abolition of caste-based reservations and her X profile states that she believes in the motto “One Family, One Reservation”.
The Bengaluru-based entrepreneur and TEDx speaker had reiterated her issues with caste-based segregation in her previous posts.
“I am a general quota student. I have inherited 0.00 acres of land from my ancestors. I live in a rented house. I didn't get admission despite scoring 95% but my classmate who comes from a well-off family scored 60% got admission. You ask why there is a problem with reservation,” Tiwari wrote in a post dated August 2022.
More recently, she called on the general sector to come together within five years, warning that failure to do so would result in reservations in the private sector as well.
However, her post on “Brahmin genes” became her most controversial post to date, receiving 1.3 million views on X in a single day.
“Flaunting caste”
Hundreds of social media users accused Tiwari of being a casteist and asked him to do better.
“That is precisely why the caste system still exists! Being healthy is a good thing, but attributing it to superior genes or specific genes is not the way to build one family in India,” Supreme Court lawyer Shashank Ratnoo wrote.
“She is fighting for anti-reservationism while flaunting her caste. How typical,” another user pointed out.
“According to Manusmurti, women should stay at home all the time, take care of their husbands and do nothing else. But because of the Constitution, you flaunt your triceps on Twitter and live life the way you want. So, thank Babasaheb Ambedkar for that!” said an X user.
“To whom do we owe it that we can work and live our lives on our own terms? To Dr Ambedkar (who sponsored both the Constitution and the Hindu Code Bill) and a string of other progressive voices over the decades,” agreed another.
