The Fifth Floor: The rise of caste influencers in India

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

India's ancient caste system can result in controversy and discrimination in the country. But a new trend has sprung up of young women flaunting their caste on social media. Our Delhi correspondent Divya Arya has met some of these women, to try and find out why they are so keen to express 'caste pride'. Plus BBC Mundo's Laura García meets the residents of a Parisian retirement home who have found their own way of embracing the Olympic spirit. Produced by Caroline Ferguson and Alice Gioia.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
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0:21.0	This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC
0:26.2	journalists from all around the world. I'm your host Parenak Amidi. Amity. Do you follow any influencers on social media? I do from fitness trainers and stylus to cat owners and cooks with delicious recipes and
0:47.4	I always want to know what other people think about influencers who they follow and why, and what become quite popular in India.
1:13.0	There are two young women who post content
1:16.0	about a quite controversial topic,
1:20.0	their cast identity.
1:22.0	Divia Aria, our correspondent from Delhi, has been looking into this.
1:26.8	When I spoke to her, she began by explaining how the caste system works. It's pretty deeply ingrained in Hinduism and some estimates suggest
1:37.0	that it goes back 3,000 years and what it does is it segregates everybody who is Hindu on the basis of their caste.
1:46.0	And they're different caste, they have different names.
1:48.0	Brahmins broadly form the top of it.
1:51.0	Traditionally, they've been priests, they're the most educated, most privileged,
1:55.7	and the Dalits come at the bottom of it and traditionally they've done the most what may be called
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