Yashica Dutt is the author of the non-fiction memoir, Coming Out as Dalit. 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). Yashica Dutt is an emerging figure recognized for highlighting Dalit rights globally and her voice has been instrumental in understanding the realities of the caste system. 

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 graduated from Columbia Journalism School and lives in New York. She is planning to soon release Coming Out as Dalit worldwide.

Listen as she speaks with Jonathan Joseph about her fashion as armor coming of age story and how it led her to explore the issues of caste through journalism as well as through her newly published memoir.