India, March 6 -- Pratik Jain, co-founder of the political consulting firm I-PAC, recently took to LinkedIn to highlight "PIN Code Racism". The founder claimed that "PIN code racism" is a deeply ingrained bias in Indian cities based on which part of a city a person lives.

In a long, thought-provoking post, Jain talked about how in cities like Mumbai and Delhi, residential address can be used to determine a person's social standing and even how they are perceived in professional and personal circles.

"The most loaded question kids are asked isn't "What do you want to be?" It's "So, what does your father do?" It isn't curiosity about his job-it's social algebra, a calculation to place you in a certain societal bracket. When you're a littl...