5/19/2023 0 Comments Yashica dutt books![]() Until even five years ago, the only way Dalits were talked about was via reservation – whether it should or should not be there, or in terms of atrocities against them. I decided to change the narrative of how Dalits were discussed. I questioned myself about what I was doing with all my education and experience as a journalist. It made me question my own privilege as a Dalit person who was able to hide her identity. ![]() Rohith Vemula left a very moving suicide note which I read while living in New York. She talks to us about how the book came about, her thoughts on coming to terms with her Dalit identity, and the existence of caste discrimination in modern society. In 2019, she wrote her memoir Coming Out as Dalit (Aleph Book Company) about growing up with the inhumane label of being low caste looming over her family. ![]() In 2016, New York-based writer-journalist Yashica Dutt ‘came out’ on Facebook as a Dalit in response to Hyderabad PhD scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide, which many have labelled an “institutional murder” after he protested against the casteist policies of Hyderabad University. ![]()
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