a bottle of river, a box of hills - an evening of poetry and conversation with Jacinta Kerketta
Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation with Jacinta Kerketta, Hindi poet and freelance journalist from the Oraon Adivasi community of Jharkhand, India.
Event details of
a bottle of river, a box of hills - an evening of poetry and conversation with Jacinta Kerketta
- Date
- 6 March 2026
- Time
- 17:00
- Location
- Het Fort van Sjakoo
Jacinta Kerketta's poetry revolves around the life-worlds of Adivasi communities and offers a keen understanding of their struggles for survival in the face of forced displacement, corporate extractivism
and ecological devastation.
Moderators: Divya Nadkarni (Lecturer & NWO-Veni Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Literary & Cultural Analysis, ASCA, UvA) and Sruti Bala (Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Studies, ASCA, UvA)
There will be live Hindi-English translation.
