Kamal Haasan Not Reporting His Daughters' Caste May Not Solve India's Casteism

Haasan is an Iyengar Brahmin and his daughter Shruti Haasan has been known to assert caste pride in various previous instances.

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File image of actor-politician Kamal Haasan at a press conference. (File photo: PTI)

Caste is one of the most potent issues in Indian politics and politicians time and again have tried to use it as a go-to talking point for political traction. Testimony to the fact is Kamal Haasan, who was recently bashed on Twitter for proclaiming that the way to annihilate caste was to not report it.

And how did the actor-turned-politician do so? By not putting down his daughters’ caste in the 'caste column' of their ‘school certificates’.