![]() Her four-part radio series On the Tip of a Billion Tongues, commissioned and broadcast by ABC RN’s Earshot program, is an acerbic portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers. Roanna Gonsalves is the award-winning Indian Australian author of the acclaimed collection of short fiction The Permanent Resident (UWAP) published in India as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger). Dutt recently won India’s Sahitya Akademi Yuva Pursukar and her work has been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic. 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. Her book is an account of refusing to ‘pass’ and the larger implications of the upper-class idea that India is ‘past’ caste. ![]() Under these extremely stressful circumstances Dutt was a success, a well-educated professional, who didn’t know how to live. Coming Out as Dalit is a phenomenal memoir by Yashica Dutt about her personal story along with the accounts of the discriminative nature of Indian society that’s been thriving upon the caste system and by oppressing a certain section of people for over generations. ![]() In her memoir Coming Out as Dalit, Yashica Dutt recounts her mother’s ambitions to overcome poverty by passing herself and her family off as Brahmin. ![]()
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