New Delhi, Jan. 19 -- A Jaipur-based entrepreneur's social media post about his young son being socially isolated for playing with a domestic worker's child has triggered a wider conversation on class prejudice in urban India.

Gaurav Kheterpal, founder and chief executive of Vanshiv Technologies, shared the incident on X, saying his son was "boycotted" by other children in their residential lane after the two began playing football regularly with a boy whose father works as a household helper in the neighbourhood.

"My son has been boycotted by kids in our lane," Kheterpal wrote, adding that both he and his child would join the football games. The reason, he claimed, was simple yet disturbing - the other families felt it was "beneath the...