Sharankumar Limbale narrates the situation of an educated Dalit who has given up his Dalit identity and thus the associated privileges granted under the constitution to live as an ordinary citizen in modern India. Whenever he has needed to fill in his caste on forms, he has written ‘Human’. In this beautifully crafted novel, translated from Marathi, the author shows the cruel resilience and viciousness of the caste system, belying such hopes in what is considered to be the preeminent institution to reform society: education in school and college, working instead as a vicious betrayal.