Indian poet rejects US-backed arts award ‘in solidarity with Palestine’
2024-10-04
Jacinta Kerketta is a poet from the Indigenous community of Oraon in Jharkhand in eastern India A poet and author from an Indigenous community in India has refused a US-backed arts award “in solidarity” with Palestinians. Jacinta Kerketta, 41, has refused the 2024 Room to Read Young Author Award, jointly awarded by USAID and RoomContinue Reading