In months like March, or June people from particular identities and those whose work is propelled by questions of social and political transformations, find their phones buzzing a lot. There are corporates and consulates, journalists and Insta-political groups who want to do articles and events “for diversity and inclusion”, now a thriving profession, rife with phrases like social impact and scaling up.

I wonder if they heard last week, about the suicide of a man called Vivek Raj, a Dalit employee of Lifestyle International in Bangalore. Raj had made a complaint of caste-based harassment from colleagues at work. Reportedly, he was encouraged to quit by the HR department. He subsequently tried to file a police complaint at the Marathahalli police. The police weren’t cooperative. An FIR was filed only after intervention from an Assistant Commissioner of Police.