She is planning to soon release Coming Out as Dalit worldwide. In the wake of Rohith Vemula’s suicide, New-York based journalist Yashica Dutt decided to reveal what she had hidden for years her whole life. We recommend you read the blurb and trigger warnings for each book before picking it up. Dutt graduated from Columbia Journalism School and lives in New York. Jaipur Literature Festival: Yashica Dutt wrote a memoir, Coming Out As Dalit penning down her experiences, her constant pretension of being from an upper caste and wilful denial. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic and Dutt has been featured on The BBC, The Guardian and PBS Newshour. Dutt’s work seeks to expose caste as ‘the invisible arm that turns the gears in nearly every system in India', and highlights why this issue needs urgent attention. Yashica Dutt is an emerging figure recognized for highlighting Dalit rights globally and her voice has been instrumental in understanding the realities of caste within the increasingly prominent Indian diaspora.
A meticulously reported memoir that presents a scathing and intimate account of how the caste system brutally affects Dalits in today’s India, Coming Out as Dalit is currently being taught at several universities across the United States. It was recently awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, 2020 (India’s National Academy of Letters’ Young Writers Award among the country’s highest literary honors). A scuffle broke out and several Dalit students were arrested and suspended for a few years. When ASA members confronted him about this, he allegedly asked the guards to ‘throw them out’. Yashica Dutt (she/her) is a leading anti-caste expert, journalist and the award-winning author of the non-fiction memoir, Coming Out as Dalit.Ĭoming Out as Dalit, Dutt’s first book, has been lauded both critically, and embraced by readers. In 2001, he discontinued a flexible payment system that allowed poor Dalit students cover their food bills.
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