My name is Sanmori Sandarajan, and I am executive director of Equality Labs, and we are a civil rights organization that works on issues of cast in tech.

Back in April, Danmori was invited to give a talk at Google News for Dalit History Month.

It's a month she helped found, as an activist who works to celebrate and promote people in the cast known as Dalits.

It's the lowest cast in the historical caste system in South Asia.

And so my talk would have been about how caste bias impacts newsrooms and ways that Google News could help address those issues

and bridge those gaps for our community.

So it's, you know, it was a really fairly normal thing.

This is the bread and butter of what then more he does,

diversity equity and inclusion talks about cast and DEI training for big companies.

I actually thought it was going to be a very simple talk because, you know, the Google news

team is not that large, and I'd already spoken for Google about the issue of caste equity

a year before, so it should have just been a normal process.

That is not what happened.

According to Thedmori and reporting by the Washington Post, Natasha Tiku, a small group of Google

employees began calling Thedmori Hindu-phobic and anti-Hindu in internal message boards and emails.

They told HR that if she went through with her talk, it would make them afraid for their lives.

And rather than look at their own vetting process, which had vetted me earlier in the company,

and even the factual evidence record to who I am and my work is a DEI and cast and tech expert,

they decided to postpone the talk.

Google told the Washington Post that they canceled the talk because it was creating division and rancor. A senior manager who had invited then Mori to speak resigned in protest. And once

the story about what happened became public, then Mori says, things got worse, online and in real

life.

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