“I describe myself as a hopeless romantic, because one must be crazy to love the world we live in, to imagine, work, and hope for a better tomorrow. I identify as a Dalit-queer person politically, since I am neither interested in claiming any particular gender nor a caste position to emancipate myself. Gender and caste have no space in any civil or progressive society and my identification is directly in opposition to these systems. I was lucky enough to be born in a family where ‘feminism’ was not a bad
