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Yashica Dutt is a New York-based journalist who writes on gender, identity and culture. This, Dutt's first book, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, 2020, which is among India's highest literary honors. 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. I am currently working on a nonfiction part memoir, part contemporary history book which will be published by Aleph Publishing House, Delhi in 2017. Yashica Dutt is a leading anti-caste expert, journalist and the award-winning author of the best-selling book on caste, Coming Out as Dalit. 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.

Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations around caste-based discrimination in universities in India. She has worked as a Principal Correspondent for Hindustan Times and is the founder of Documents of Dalit Discrimination Tumblr. Address: 161 B/4, Ground Floor, Gulmohar House, Yusuf Sarai Community. Yashica Dutt is a New York based writer and journalist who is about to publish a definitive non fiction book on growing up lower caste in India. 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. 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. Aleph books are available on Amazon, Flipkart, and at all leading bookstores across India. 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. 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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