As nation celebrates PV Sindhu's silver medal, people Google her caste
New Delhi: Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu may have garnered a lot of praise and adulation from the Indian public for her performance, but there are many who seem to be least bothered about her achievements. Instead, they choose to look at her in a completely different way.
A quick Google search for PV Sindhu reveals something shocking – that more than her performance, people seem to care about her caste. ‘PV Sindhu caste’ is one of the top searches for her name on Google.
What’s more, the searches for PV Sindhu’s caste only increased through last week as she advanced first to the semifinal and then to the final of the women’s badminton singles event.
The top searches in Google for PV Sindhu show 'PV Sindhu caste' among them. (Photo: Screengrab)
Sindhu’s caste has been searched the most by users from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the states she belongs to.
In August, over a million people have searched for her caste, up from 90,000 in July and around 1,50,000 in June.
Even as PV Sindhu won a silver medal, people decided to find out which caste she belonged to. (Photo: screengrab)
Incredibly ‘Pullela Gopichand caste’ is also a frequently searched item on Google, showing that people are curious about the caste of her coach as well.
However, not just Indian residents, but also people settled in Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE have been at the top five spots in searching for the caste that Sindhu belongs to.
While Sindhu celebrates becoming the first Indian woman to win a silver medal at the Olympics, Indians continue to be more concerned with parochial matters such as her caste. And then some say that caste does not exist in modern India.
