One poet says that caste hides inside you like the flow of electricity that cannot be seen; only when it shocks your entire being do you realise its lethal potential," writes Yogesh Maitreya in Flowers on the Grave of Caste. The book has six short stories, mainly set in the urban milieu, with young, Dalit men as protagonists.

Instead of leaving you with a sense of dismay, the stories provide hope and resistance. Maitreya says, "What could be the intention of a Dalit person from the first generation to earn access to a university space, only to find it subtly hostile to him? To write about it is to free oneself from the burden which the casteist society imposed on a Dalit man like myself. For us, writing is an act of preserving the memory of our mental struggle against this casteist society. For us, writing is resisting," adding that the intention behind writing the book was to proclaim Dalit existence, proudly and loudly, in the face of erasure and oppression.