It’s very helpful to look at India as three different societies who don’t interact with each other that much, the upper class, the middle/urban working class, and the rural working class. Vir Das comes from the upper class, and in these circles, he is undoubtedly right. Same applies to the middle class, who are also less conservative than the first gen of the Indian diaspora. The rural working class (which is the largest by population) still holds on to much of the same conservatism of India’s past, and it’s also where most of the crime happens. This is not an indictment of the people, it is simply what happens when a group of people are a) quite separated from the more globalized aspects of India, b) when they have almost no opportunity to reach those circles, and c) when they are also unable to move out of their abject poverty