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A Special Evening of Poetry Reading and Discussion with Jacinta Kerketta
February 21, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm CST
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The East Side Freedom Library, Parakh-Minnesota, the South Asia Seminar Series and The Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle at the University of Minnesota invite you to a special evening of poetry reading and discussion with
Jacinta Kerketta
on
Land of the Roots / जड़ों की ज़मीन (Jadon Ki Zameen)
Friday, February 21, 2020, 6-8:30pm
This event will be held in English and Hindi and is open to the public. Seats are limited so please RSVP to [email protected].
Jacinta Kerketta is a poet, writer, and freelance journalist, belonging to an Oraon Adivasi community of West Singhbhum district. She writes in Hindi. In her poems, Jacinta highlights the injustices committed on the Adivasi communities, along with their struggles. Her poems are also important cultural and artistic documents of Adivasi worldviews. Jacinta is the author of two bi-lingual (Hindi and English) full-length collections of poems – Angor (Adivani, Kolkata) and Jadon Ki Zameen (Bharatiya Jnanpith, New Delhi). She sits on the editorial board of AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges.