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We would like to share a deeply personal and beautifully written piece on caste identity by Sinthujan Varatharajah."What does it then mean to utter these words in public? That you are a Dalit or an inter-caste Dalit? How will it affect my parents if we choose to identify with what we were taught to deny? How will it affect the people around us? How will it affect us?""Piece by piece am I learning to process and share, to no more live in fear and silence. To no more deny the validity of our own voices. This is part of an ongoing journey which I share in the knowledge of the vulnerability I produce not just for myself, but also those I love the most. But our pain isn't just ours, our experiences aren't exclusively ours, and our stories are neither isolated events. They mirror this society and culture we cherish but hardly critique.The struggle goes on and so does our our emancipation and liberation. This is part of my own contribution, the coming out I chose for myself."via: http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=7530%3Apoliticising-the-personal-who-am-i-who-are-we-as-people-3&#38;catid=119%3Afeature&#38;Itemid=132Sinthujan Varatharajah is a PhD candidate in Political Geography at the University College London and the Founder of Roots of Diaspora (www.facebook.com/rootsofdiaspora), a narrative project on refugees and migration of Tamils from Sri Lanka. He previously researched questions on caste in migration and diaspora for his master's thesis at the London School of Economics and Political Science.You can follow him on Twitter @varathassource: http://roundtableindia.co.in