Wild Scenes from Outside the Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani Town Hall

You've seen and read about what happened inside the Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani Fighting Oligarchy town hall in Brooklyn on Saturday. But what was…

Sep 8 • 

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August 2025

Turns Out That Dominant Caste Behaviors Won't Save You If You're Caught Shoplifting at Target

A viral video of an Indian woman caught on police footage shows the limits of assuming that the impunity that protects dominant caste Indians at home…

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

California's Caste Bill And What Could Have Been

California's caste bill was a historic legislation that would have shifted the anti-caste landscape in the US. But Governor Gavin Newsom last-minute…

Jul 21 • 

Yashica Dutt

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Dispatches from the (erstwhile) Mayoral Trail - Staten Island

The race for the Democratic Mayoral Primary might be over but the road to the General Election for New York City's Mayor in November is just heating up

Jul 15 • 

Yashica Dutt

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June 2025

Dispatches from the NYC Mayoral Trail: Kensington Brooklyn and DRUM Beats

Third part of the series on reports from New York's South Asian neighborhoods

Jun 20 • 

Yashica Dutt

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May 2025

The Summer of George Floyd's Murder and The Season of Anti-Caste Politics in the United States

An in-depth essay of where we stand five years since the 'moment of racial reckoning'

May 30 • 

Yashica Dutt

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Dispatches from NYC Mayoral Election Trail: Turbans, Kirpans and Vaisakhi Celebrations at the NYPD Police Academy

Second part of the series on reports from New York's South Asian neighborhoods

May 24 • 

Yashica Dutt

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Dispatches from NYC Mayoral Election Trail: Woodside, the Ravidassia Sikh Temple and Jackson Heights

An account of my reporting on the NYC Democratic Primaries

May 17 • 

Yashica Dutt

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Zohran Mamdani's South Asianness doesn't scream from the rooftops

But it was playing on the loudspeakers at his first major campaign rally in Brooklyn

May 12 • 

Yashica Dutt

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Notes on Shame, Bisexuality and Dalit Queerness

An excerpt from the first all-Dalit Women panel on Caste, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia SIPA, April 4, 2024

May 10 • 

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October 2024

The heartless cruelty that comes with being a Dalit woman

Prof. Shailaja Paik became the first Dalit scholar to receive the prestigious McArthur Fellowship. And also the target of vitriol from dominant caste…

Oct 17, 2024 • 

Yashica Dutt

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September 2024

In Honor of the latest Hollywood Reporter India Cover Story

A year since 'Made in Heaven', how caste has continued shaping the Indian film and television space

Sep 25, 2024 • 

Yashica Dutt

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