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Time of India
27-06-2025
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- Time of India
My poems reflect tribal lifestyle: Gumla author
Gumla's young tribal author Parvati Tirkey, who has been named for this year's Sahitya Academy Yuva Puraskar for her maiden Hindi poetry Phir Ugna (Re-Germinate Again) talks to K A Gupta about different aspects of literature and her foray into poetry. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Excerpts: Give us some insight into your collection of poetry? It primarily reflects the tribal lifestyle — its simplicity, the community-centric nature of tribal groups, and sisterly relationships with nature. They also capture the celebration of tribal life and the intuitive tracking of seasonal changes, along with beliefs built around them. The poems depict the ecosystem around tribal communities and their philosophy of life. They feature the tribal perspective of observing nature and dialogues in the language of love with birds like the Nakdauna, Jarla, and Dhinchua (all local birds), with oxen, the stars, the earth — all elements of nature. How did you feel after being named for the prestigious award? It's not just an honour for my poems but an honour for dialogue as well. I belong to the tribal community and write what's rooted in the land, which has given me a different perspective. Receiving this award is not just personal — it's empowering like my community, and the belief system of our ancestors. What inspired you to become a poetess? My inspiration comes from the ancestors, who include both visible and non-visible forms. Their songs, proverbs, and stories inspired me. The simplicity of their lives and their sweet relationship with nature ignited my writing. You belong to Oraon tribe (Kudukh language). Why did you choose Hindi as the medium for your works? Yes, although I speak Kudukh, but under the contemporary system, we were denied schooling in our mother tongue. It's also a matter of concern that the tribal community has faced cultural displacement from its knowledge traditions and education systems. So, I had to choose a language that could be understood for communication. I wrote poetry in Hindi, blending words from my native language into sentences.
Time of India
18-06-2025
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- Time of India
State author gets Sahitya Akademi award
Ranchi: Jharkhand's young tribal author, Parvati Tirkey has been named for the 2025 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for her Hindi poetry collection 'Phir Ugna'. A formal notification in this regard was issued by Sahitya Akademi on Wednesday along with other winners. Tirkey is a resident of Gumla district and is working as an assistant professor at Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav College in Ranchi. She is a PhD in Hindi from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Uttar Pradesh.
Hindustan Times
18-06-2025
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- Hindustan Times
Children need rich and deep literature, not childish: Hindi writer Sushil Shukla
New Delhi, Hindi writer Sushil Shukla on Wednesday expressed gratitude for being named the winner for Sahitya Akademi's Bal Sahitya Puraskar and said that today children need rich and deep literature, not childish. Shukla, along with 23 others, has been named the winner for the prestigious children's literature award. "We should try that children's literature, stories, poems should not remain only for children. Its subject should be such that people of every age can communicate with them," Shukla told PTI Bhasha over the phone from Bhopal. He added that the winning story collection "Ek Batey Barah" has been written in such a way that readers of every age feel connected to it and return with different meanings for themselves. Shukla, who has been associated with children's literature for the last 18 years, is the director of Ektara, Takshila's Children's Literature and Art Center, and is also the co-editor of two children's magazines - "Pluto" and "Cycle". Talking about the award, he appreciated that the academy has established an award "in a somewhat ignored area like children's literature". "This is an award for the thought that rich and deep literature is necessary for children and not childish literature," he added. The editor of "Chakmak", Shukla was awarded the "Harikrishna Devasare Bal Sahitya Award" for "Ek Batey Barah" in 2024. Hindi tribal poet Parvati Tirkey has been named the recipient for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. "Kaavya Karma is actually an attempt to communicate through poems and I am happy that this dialogue has been honoured," she said. Tirkey, who hails from the Kudukh tribal community of Jharkhand, will receive the award for her poetry collection "Phir Ugna". "Phir Ugna" is Tirkey's first poetry work, which was published by Radhakrishna Prakashan in the year 2023. The poems of this collection are "written in simple, truthful and sensitive language, which feels like a direct dialogue to the reader". In these poems, the earth, trees, birds, moon, stars and forests are not mere symbols - they are present within the poem as a living world. Tirkey makes the experiences of tribal life a part of her poems while underlining the ongoing tension between the pressure of modern civilisation and the will to live of the tribal culture. The awardees will receive a cash prize of ₹50,000 along with a copper-plaque at a special ceremony on a later date.
