When I first started writing Hindi poems, I heard people from the Hindi literary world say: “The voice in your poems is masculine and feminine at once. This makes it hard to guess the poet’s gender.” ...

In the tribal belt of Udaipur, Banswara, and Dungarpur in the southernmost tip of Rajasthan, small signboards dot the dusty highways which lead into settlements of the Bhil Adivasi people. The ...

Jacinta Kerketta, a writer of Kurukhar Adivasi origin, is a powerful poet and journalist who advocates for the environment, women's issues and Adivasi rights. It is easy to assume that Jacinta ...

Growing up as an Adivasi woman in a mixed-caste Hindu community in Jharkhand, I was always aware of the triple jeopardy I faced. First, as a woman in general, second as an Adivasi in a caste structure ...