{"id":14693,"date":"2020-02-19T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/19\/coming-out-as-dalit-how-one-indian-author-finally-embraced-her-identity"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T07:00:49","slug":"coming-out-as-dalit-how-one-indian-author-finally-embraced-her-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14693","title":{"rendered":"Coming out as Dalit: how one Indian author finally embraced her identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raised to hide her low caste, Yashica Dutt\u2019s new book traces her realisation that her history is one of oppression, not shame<\/p>\n<p>Pretending not to be a Dalit took a heavy toll on the young Yashica Dutt.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother, Shashi, was so determined to protect her three children from the discrimination of the Hindu caste system that relegates Dalits to the periphery of society that she pretended the family were Brahmin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/19\/coming-out-as-dalit-how-one-indian-author-finally-embraced-her-identity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raised to hide her low caste, Yashica Dutt\u2019s new book traces her realisation that her history is one of oppression, not shamePretending not to be a Dalit took a heavy toll on the young Yashica Dutt.Her mother, Shashi, was so determined to protect her t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,1128,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-dalits","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14694,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}