Anyone who thinks that modern India is largely free of caste biases should take their head out of the sand and read the news of a Dalit girl who passed away yesterday after allegedly being gangraped and strangled by four upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh. Such injustices in our country still ring out as loud and clear as a bell at the entrance of a temple.

But when it comes to the arts, the subject — more often than not — is viewed through a grim lens of honour killings, manual scavenging, violence against marginalised communities and other such grisly tropes (think of Sairat, the excellent Marathi film). Humour is rarely employed as a weapon to annihilate caste biases. That's why a new short film called The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas is a breath of fresh air, since it pokes fun at the narrow worldview that even so-called upper-class 'liberals' suffer from, sometimes unknowingly.