‘What a joke’: $200,000 palak paneer settlement resurfaces online; 2 Indian PhD students win in food-smell racist case
A legal settlement dating back to September 2025 has resurfaced online and gone viral, thanks to its unexpectedly quirky subject: palak paneer.University of Colorado Boulder settled a federal lawsuit in September 2025 for $200,000, after two Indian PhD candidates Aditya Prakash and Urmi Bhattacharyya alleged discrimination over the smell of South Asian food and a…