Interview: Jacinta Kerketta – “I hope to read fewer books, and read more into hu
It is easy to assume that Jacinta Kerketta, a writer of Kurukhar Adivasi origin is incandescent with rage. But her calm tone as she chooses her words carefully shows that she is beyond rage, having achieved some sort of transcendence instead.
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Poet Jacinta Kerketta (Courtesy the subject)
We met in Raipur, at one of her poetry readings last year. Like the rest of the small audience, I was shaken by her soft delivery of powerful words, her rich vocabulary, surprising tropes and swerving thoughts. Take for…