In Coming Out as Dalit, Dutt recounts the exhausting burden of living with the secret and how she was terrified of being found out. For Yashica Dutt, a journalist living in New York, this was the moment to stop living a lie, and admit to something that she had hidden from friends and colleagues for over a decade - that she was Dalit. Yashica Dutt, author of the book has done her bit of research and thinking to understand how her personal experiences are shaped by her surroundings.ĭalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations around caste-based discrimination in universities in India. This book is an attempt to contextualise one’s personal experience with the hope that it does the same for the reader. ‘Coming out as Dalit a memoir by Yashica Dutt’ is a vital and extensively researched commentary not only on Dalit history but what it means to be a Dalit today.
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