Jacinta Kerketta

Jacinta Kerketta is an Indian Hindi-language journalist, poet and activist. Her poetry and journalism discusses the Adivasi identity of youth, protests against the systemic oppression of Adivasis in India, gender-based violence, especially against women, displacement and questions the state apathy of governance. Forbes India named her one of India's top 20 Self-Made Women list. Her first Hindi-English bilingual poetry collection Angor was translated into German, Italian and French. Her second Hindi-English bilingual poetry collection Jadon ki Zameen was translated into English and German. Ishwar aur Bazaar is her third poetry collection.