In 2016, Dutt authored a blog post titled ‘Today, I’m coming out as Dalit‘ describing how she had hidden her caste and passed as ‘non-Dalit’.
[4][5] Following her post Dutt began receiving messages from other Dalit women who shared similar experiences, prompting her to create the Tumblr blog "Documents of Dalit Discrimination" as a platform to publish some of their stories.
[6][7] Dutt's journalism and commentary has been published in Indian and international publications including The Atlantic,[8] The New York Times,[9] The Caravan,[10] Foreign Policy,[11] Hindustan Times, LiveMint, Scroll.in, The Wire, HuffPost India and The Asian Age.
[16] Her decision to end the pretense of being an upper caste woman was triggered by a University of Hyderabad Dalit student Rohith Vemula's last letter, which was made public following his suicide.
[18] She received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for the book in the English category for the year 2020.