She was previously a principal correspondent with Brunch and Hindustan Times and is the founder of . Closet Dalithood: Traumatized Caste Performativity and the Making of an Urban Aesthetics of Caste in Yashica Dutts Coming Out as Dalit (2019). Yashica Dutt is a New York-based journalist who writes on gender, identity and culture. Coming Out As Dalit, as the title suggests, is a memoir of a young Dalit woman Yashica Dutt, who documents her experience of being systematically forced to hide her Dalit identity to get somewhere in the world. Woven from personal narratives from her life as well as that of other Dalits, this book forces us to confront the injustices of caste and serves as a call to action. My Response To Yashica’s Call To Come Out As Dalit And To Embrace My Dalitness. She writes about the consequences of the lack of access to education and culture the paucity of Dalit voices in mainstream media and attempts to answer crucial questions about caste and privilege. In this personal memoir that is at the same time a history of the Dalit people, she writes about the journey of coming to terms with her identity and chronicles the Dalit movement. In Coming Out as Dalit, Dutt recounts the exhausting burden of living with the secret, terrified of being found out, and dealing with the crushing guilt of denying her history.
For Yashica Dutt, a journalist living in New York, this was the moment to stop living a lie and admit something – that she had hidden from friends and colleagues for over a decade – that she was Dalit. 1 day ago &0183 &32 The push for a complete national caste census dates to 1980 and revolves around the move to extend to the mid-level OBCs the affirmative action programs that benefit Dalits: reserved places in.
Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January of 2016 started many charged conversations around caste-based discrimination in universities in India.
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