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When I say 'sit your curry ass down' to win an argument, you need to study why 'curry smell' is a derogatory word and how it has been used to entrench power. Let me even tell you its relevance in law: criminal sentencing, prejudice and the like. Judges, and to a larger extent police, many times, rely on appearance (and smell) for subconscious culpability (and this is well-researched). Bringing to light underlying biases helps improve society, and in fact, your life. Smell, as she also points out, was also an important factor in the civilizing mission of colonization, used to justify, e.g., why Indians are savages and need the British to civilize these backward people. The politics of smell is extremely important precisely because it seems banal and yes is a critical tool for projecting power hierarchies. The entirety of the Western World used it, including to undermine Mahatma Gandhi and other important Indian political figures during calls for decolonization. That power dynamic carries on today, as she demonstrates.
And yes, that is why, I agree with the OP that Indian academia is generally screwed. In any case, Indian academia does not care right? Which is why Cambridge took this PhD, not IIM-A, which is great, but may I also know which great scientific invention has been coming out of India with this pissing match between STEM and other disciplines?