Taking cues from seaside festivities in St.-Tropez attended by the yacht-owning caste, New York clubs like Lavo, Ajna Bar and Brasserie Beaumarchais offer weekend brunch parties with go-go dancers, sloshing jeroboams of rosé and fog machines.
There are always rumours that, somewhere beyond the nations known as Washington and Tuscany, perhaps even north of the fabled Isle of Man Chester, there might be another village called Scotland, from which many centuries ago, the ruling caste of New Labour descended.
Today, this logic is increasingly catering to the elite at the expense of the lower classes and castes, generating new forms of activism which entangle anti-corruption, anti-land grabbing, social justice, and environmental concerns.
Another government leader calls the middle class a new "caste".
It would also help them become a "new caste [sic] of consumers".Businessmen are unconvinced.
Class distinctions might have been abolished, but within the party a new caste system was evolving.
The debate over caste in the New India is more than academic.
The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.
At the same time, a new caste of oligarchs emerged, many with close personal ties to Putin.
Fifty years after the civil rights movement, will we now have a new caste of subordinated foreign workers?
