"felt like"
Of course, you'll never know for sure if they meant to find out your caste. That's the point. If they wanted to be explicit about their objective, they could've asked for their caste.
Thats what I am trying to say. You can never be sure, and it is only when you attach the context of them being Indian and his experience in India as a "lower caste" person that you arrive at this conclusion that the invitation must be extended to figure out his caste.
And that makes it a very bad anecdote for an article like that, and in general weakens the point the article is trying to make.
And that makes it a very bad anecdote for an article like that, and in general weakens the point the article is trying to make.