Jacinta Kerkatta, a poet and journalist from the tribal community in the Indian state of Jharkhand, says: In India, the government is destroying forests for the capitalists by labeling tribal people as Naxalites, a communist group engaged in armed struggle.
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The third series of ‘Chittaun Kacheheri’ began with a scholarly discourse by Jacinta Kerkatta, a poet and journalist from the tribal community of the Indian state of Jharkhand. She began her talk on tribal knowledge and the atrocities committed against them by greeting them, ‘Johar’ in her language.
Jacinta is a famous poet in India. That is why she started her speech with poetry. She went on to explain the effects of recent development on the tribal society of her area, which was respected by even the old kings and British rulers.
She said that she started writing poems and news against the wrong commentary targeting the tribals and the mass violence against them. ‘If I had not had a pen in my hand, I would have had a gun,’ she said. She said that the democratic character like that of tribal society is not found in other communities. Her comment was that the Hindu caste system was aimed at destroying this character of the tribals. She said that this trend increased when people from other states started coming to the tribal areas along with forest destruction and mineral extraction.
‘The mass violence against us was justified by making false and false commentary that the tribals are of the nature of sacrificing people. The so-called mainstream media, cinema, government and power are all focused on the tribals now,’ she said. She said that the government is trying to destroy the forest for the capitalists by targeting the indigenous people in India as Naxalites, a communist group engaged in armed struggle.
She claimed that there is no one more patriotic than the indigenous people because they live in harmony with nature. ‘The upper and middle classes talk a lot about patriotism.’ But this is the class that is always ready to leave the country and flee. When there is a problem in the country, they flee and live abroad. The indigenous people never leave India. The indigenous people do not shout that they are patriots. But no one else has the soil, nature and love for the country as much as the indigenous people,’ she said.
She said that the caste system is trying hard to turn the indigenous people living in the barefoot villages into new Dalits. ‘The indigenous society wants to develop by keeping nature and the earth together. The indigenous society will continue to fight against the dishonesty of looting in the name of development,’ she said. But he says that the government is still in danger of turning against the indigenous people in the name of Naxalism.
‘Chittaun Kacheheri’ is the name derived from the Tharu language of the indigenous community of Chitwan. The poetry kacheheri was held on Thursday evening at the Chittaun Kacheheri, organized by Better Chitwan. Sessions on 15 different topics will be held on Friday and Saturday. The co-organizers of the Chittaun Kacheheri, which is being held at the Narayani Kala Mandir, are the Kala Mandir and 6 other organizations including the Tharu Kalyankarini Sabha Chitwan.
In this series of Chittaun Kacheheri, there will be two sessions on the Gen-G movement. Similarly, there will be two sessions on the indigenous Tharu community of Chitwan. From cinema to politics, from literature to journalism, from society to the problems of the common man, the kacheheri will be debated, said the coordinator of the organizing committee, Engineer Sagar Karki.
