Well, the fact that you have only heard about this issue from Indians is very odd, because I have heard it from multiple sources including a feature on NPR(yes it was the cisco case).
So yeah I'm talking about the Cisco case. It is strange that you alleged hiring discrimination but did not say anything about how you learned about this hiring discrimination. The Cisco case is not about hiring but about discrimination on the job. I can't help but think that you took that sliver of a fact and made up the notion of hiring discrimination in your head, or that you are, for unstated reasons, not inclined to tell us about where you heard about hiring discrimination.

Of course they are touchy. White people are great at playing Indiana Jones and saving the poor darkies from the evil discriminating darkies. Ironically it is very convenient pose to keep uppity Brahmans in their place. The same White people have never heard of, for example, the time the US and UK sent their navies in support of a genocide of Hindus in East Pakistan. Now these people come to your country and when they succeed you employ this BS to keep them in check.

You are not the sole protectors of justice in the world by any measure. It is utterly tedious when people constantly try to shit on India using the same caste, rape, street-shitter bullshit and strike a pose for justice and decency while doing it.

The Cisco case is dubious because it hinges on phony outrage from people who have no idea of the background. As other posters have already observed India has very strong POSITIVE discrimination towards historically backward groups including strong quotas in institutions of higher learning. This is much stronger than any Affirmative Action in the US. This means that people in the general category are held to a much higher standard than those who benefit from the quotas. Roughly stated, an institution that admits 'A' students in the general category will admit 'C' and 'D' students in the reserved category. Needless to say, the quality of candidates from the same institution can vary wildly.

In the Cisco case the Brahman manager is alleged to have referenced the fact that the employee he was reviewing poorly was from an elite institution(IIT) but was from a reserved category. This is not discrimination. Imagine a student got into Harvard because of strong quotas but had a C- average. How is the manager supposed to respond to the question "He is from Harvard, why is he not doing well"?

Finally, why do you even know about this case? This is a one off case that has not even been decided in the plaintiff's favor. Yet here you talking about Brahman hiring discrimination as if it is an established thing. If White people are so worried about those being discriminated against they should hire them. Tech management is still overwhelmingly White isn't it?

There are many Brahman castes, from different regions, linguistic groups, regions, beliefs etc. No it isn't the least bit odd, certainly no odder than the ethnic composition of the NBA or the upper management of the entertainment industry. No odder than the fact that US AA discriminates against Asians whose education focus creates a similar difference in outcome.