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Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit

Ideas of India

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The Only Way to Survive in India

I don't want to be brahmin because i think i love being brahmin. I want to be Brahmins because i don’t want to be humiliated every day. The effort to hide the cast and to drop the last name was mainly with the children so that they can survive. Despite hiding it's not that we were very successful all the time. Me and my siblings can survive in school, survive ind our cauriers can go on to college and leave rather than have a life outside of the bondages of cost. In fact, the system that is built to keep us out. And for my mam and her mam and other people who are dull

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