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Adivasi poet Jacinta Kerketta turns down literary prize from India Today Group

She also blamed the mainstream media for not trying to bring the plight of adivasis to light.

Adivasi poet and journalist Jacinta Kerketta has refused to accept the Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Udyman Pratibha Samman, a literary accolade by the India Today Group, for her collection of Hindi-language poems Ishwar aur Bazaar, reported Newslaundry on Friday.

Published in 2022 by Rajkamal Prakashan, Ishwar aur Bazaar talks about the civilizational threats faced by India’s Indigenous populations and their grassroots struggles against power. Kerketta, a member of the Oraon Adivasi community, was born in 1983 in Khudaposh, a village in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district.