6/21/2023 0 Comments Yengde caste matters![]() ![]() ![]() But while Yengde is proud to wear his affiliation to Babasaheb, and his Dalit identity, on his sleeve, he’s uneasy about being called a “Dalit scholar" without other qualifiers to layer that identity. It is a tribute to Ambedkar, whose iconic blue three-piece was as much a political tool as it was a sartorial choice. In these interviews, panel discussions and talks, Yengde has almost always made an appearance in a blue suit. Yengde is in India this month to promote his new book, Caste Matters, which his publisher, Penguin Random House India, confirms has sold upwards of 5,000 copies within a month of publication. ![]() In his three years there, he has been pivotal in founding the Boston Study Group and starting a monthly B.R. The scholar and activist is the inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. "The suit is a representation of something," says Suraj Yengde. ![]()
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