The session provided a critique of the socio-economic system, where “merit” is often used as an excuse to criticise affirmative actions like reservation. I decided to use the privilege I had acquired to talk about the trauma that comes with hiding your identity for so long,” she said. But when I read Rohith Vemula’s letter, something changed inside me. I tried to pass off as an upper caste person and slowly, I perfected that act. “I was told to hide my caste from a very young age. Dutt, who “came out” as Dalit after she read scholar and Hyderabad University Rohith Vemula’s suicide note in January 2016, was speaking to author Raghav Chandra and journalist Pragya Tiwari, as they tackled questions around identity and representation. We need to look beyond the binaries of violence and reservation when it comes to Dalit community, said writer Yashica Dutt on Saturday at the 13th edition of the Jaipur Lit Fest (JLF).
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