She is planning to soon release Coming Out as Dalit worldwide. Dutt graduated from Columbia Journalism School and lives in New York. 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. She was previously a principal correspondent with Brunch and the Hindustan Times and is the founder of Documents of Dalit Discrimination.
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. Yashica Dutt is a New York-based journalist who writes on gender, identity and culture. 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. In this chapter, I argue that Yashica Dutts Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir is a new note that exposes. 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). BookSubalternities in India and Latin America. 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. The bestselling book Caste brilliantly frames racial hierarchies in the United States but largely ignores the horrors of India’s caste structure.
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