In Coming out as Dalit, Yashica Dutt skilfully weaves her life story of growing up as a Dalit with the history of the Dalit movement in India. Dutt’s father was an excise officer and her mother worked at several jobs to make ends meet. All their earnings were invested in their children’s education. Dutt writes how she hid her identity all through school and college and the tremendous sense of liberation she felt when she finally made her background public. Dutt is now a journalist based in New York. An extract from her. . .
