I am a khatri but while growing up I had noticed how the bullies will pick on dublo patalo friends of mine who happened to be from Brahman caste, called them “katha”, “lute” and pick on them, take their lunch and those friends could not fight back and I always wondered how they were affected psychologically. So to me the word brings bad memories of my good, hardworking, nerdy friends’ and I take it as a slur. The same way I feel “bhote”, “nyar “ , “jayapu”, “madishe “, “doom” as a slur.