![]() We get a look at leaders like Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule and of course Ambedkar himself and what their lives, legacies and teachings mean to Dalits today (in academia, activism and otherwise). She talks not just of the many forms of discrimination Dalits face but also the various feelings of guilt and shame that they are forced to internalize growing up and how they learn to subconsciously “pass” as upper caste, essentially subduing a part of their identities.She talks about upper caste privilege (and its parallels to racism) in a society that claims to be “post caste” and how it is tenaciously enforced and preserved at various levels in universities, workplaces of private organizations and in her own field of journalism as well. Yashica Dutt takes the discussion surrounding Dalits, which in mainstream narratives is limited to either the atrocities committed against them or the skewed discussion of reservation, re-contextualizes it and reinforces the need for them to have their own narrative. ![]() ![]() It is one part memoir and other part an academic understanding of what is perhaps the most invisible of social structures in our country- caste. ![]() Coming Out as Dalit should basically be essential reading for every Indian. ![]()
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