I didn’t think I had enough to say, that I was willing to share with the world. His characters chronicle a deep history of resistance, interrogating historical, mythological and literary legends, foregrounding the perspectives of the disenfranchised. Coming Out As Dalit, as the title suggests, is a memoir of a young Dalit woman Yashica Dutt, who documents her experience of being systematically forced to hide her Dalit identity to get somewhere in the world. In this collection of short stories, Dalpat Chauhan narrates these lived experiences of exasperation and anger with startling vividity. Salinger’s 1951 novel, ‘The catcher in the rye’ is a unique young adult novel. A journey starting with shame and inferiority to ending with acceptance, satisfaction and pride. Coming out as a Dalit is a unique autobiography, much in the same way that J.D. In sharing his story, this fresh and radical voice tells his truth in the most frank and unfiltered of ways, as it happened, giving us readers permission to also be vulnerable in telling our tales.Ī new collection of short stories from veteran Gujarati Dalit writer, Dalpat Chauhan, translated by Hemang Ashwinkumar, is a reminder of the inherent dangers of the Dalit life, a life subjected to unimaginable violence and terror even in its most mundane moments. Coming Out As Dalit by Yashica Dutt is a memoir & a story of such concealing, surviving, accepting and finally exposing one’s own identity. Encompassing experiences of pain, loneliness, depravation, alienation, and the political consciousness of his caste identity, this intimately moving memoir is a story of resilience and raw brutality. One in which we learn about Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar's significant contribution in not only framing our constitution but also in fighting for the rights of Dalits.

Incredibly moving and hauntingly honest, Water in a Broken Pot is the memoir of Yogesh Maitreya, a leading independent Indian Dalit publisher, writer, and poet. Coming Out as Dalit is a learning process, one that shows how both the past and present generations have been unkind to the Dalits. Until she came out as Dalit in a Facebook note and wrote a book thats part non-fiction, part-memoir and wholly a scathing account of how the caste system.

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