Jacinta Kerketta, Writer and freelance journalist
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Jacinta Kerketta’s poetry reverberates with the lives and losses that the indigenous communities in India are grappling with at a daily level.
Born in the Oraon Adivasi community of West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, the 39-year-old is also an independent journalist. “In the past one year, I have travelled through Jharkhand and Odisha and have continuously written about issues related to conflict over land, the impact of risk management programmes on those living inside forests, and grassroot democracy among indigenous populations,” says Kerketta, who has a master’s degree in mass communication from St Xavier’s College in Ranchi. “I have also tried to highlight the different questions and perspectives of these indigenous populations through my poetry, and have published my poems at national and international levels.”
(This story appears in the 16 December, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)