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Dr. Yengde has published peer-reviewed articles in interdisciplinary journals.

A syndicated columnist with many publications across the world.

Dr. Yengde has published over 190 essays, articles, and book reviews in multiple languages in academic and non-academic journals in the field of caste, race, culture, art, labor and migration in the global south and ethnicity studies.

He is a consulting editor with Outlook where he writes “Artality”, and a columnist with Art Review. His writings and essays have appeared in many renowned publications like Ethnic & Racial Studies, Economic & Political Weekly, Al Jazeera, BBC, and The Caravan, among others.

Dr. Yengde curated a fortnightly column, “Dalitality” for The Indian Express from 2010-2024. His writings have appeared in The Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Scroll, The Huffington Post, The Print, The Citizen, Globe & Post, Sadhana, Loksatta, The Mexican Times and The Conversation.

Buddhism in southern India is not talked about much in the present tense even though there are many relics and historic sites that testify to its presence—from Kanchipuram and the Ayyappa temples to Amaravati, Nagarjuna Sagar, Sannati and Brahmagiri. feature of

Home alone

07.04.2026

More and more people around the world are living alone. Have they embraced the ‘dolce vita’ – or merely succumbed to the dreary routines of late capitalism?

A handful of media enterprises have worked hard to keep the Dalit diasporic community informed of their roots and responsibilities.

It is not the lack of civic sense, but caste pride that is responsible for the Indian cleavage

The 13th Berlin Biennale, curated by Zasha Colah and Valentina Vivo, builds on the twin ideas of “fugitivity” and “foxing” to critique power, identity politics, and cultural commodification.

Book excerpt from Caste A Global Story (2025)

Once Marathwada connected with the world the Dalit-Black bond became a precursor to the formation of active political solidarity.

While tracing the existence of untouchability in Indian social life, Suraj Milind Yengde’s book unveils the caste-based divisions that persist in societies worldwide.

Dalit, in its prevalent meaning, is a caste-specific term of assertion for those once called untouchables and now officially designated the Scheduled Castes. When it first emerged in Marathi in the 1920s, “Dalit”—literally, broken people—was reserved for the untouchable castes, but the word has taken on a wider meaning over time.

Touching on everything from anti-caste traditions to the Buddhist

legend of Matanga and Persian and Arabic perspectives on caste,

‘Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages’ edited by Prathama

Banerjee presents much fresh knowledge about Indian antiquity