Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit
Ideas of India
English - June 24, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBSocial Sciences Science Society & Culture publicpolicy development economics india Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Shruti and Yashica Dutt discuss India’s caste system, being Dalit and “passing” as non-Dalit, the intersection of caste and gender, reservations in the Indian educational system and much more. Dutt is an Indian writer and journalist who has written on a broad range of topics including fashion, gender, identity, culture and caste. She has worked with the Hindustan Times, LiveMint, Scroll.in, The Wire and HuffPost India. Her new book, “Coming Out as Dalit,” is a memoir of her experience as a Dalit woman and the history of the Dalit movement.
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