Jaipal Julius Hanna Literary Awardee 2022

Ujjwala Jyoti Tigga

She was born on 17 February 1960 in Delhi. Her father Chiras Tigga is originally a resident of Bhandariya, Garhwa (Jharkhand) but has settled in Delhi since August 1959 after getting a job in the Ministry of Agriculture. Her mother Kali Tigga of Darutoli, a matriculate, was a resident of Gumla. Memorable Ujjwala's early education was completed from Kendriya Vidyalaya Delhi (1976). She graduated in Political Science from Jesus and Mary College, Chanakyapuri, Delhi in 1979 and completed her post graduation in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in 1981. In 1983, she took up her second job as a section officer in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Delhi and continued to work there till the end. She died untimely on 19 April 2022.

Dharati Ke Anam Yodhha

Ujjwala Jyoti Tigga has poetic idioms and also a neat and well mannered way of expressing them. More importantly, her skill to think, understand and express it is different. Her poems in "Dharati Ke Anam Yodhha" (Unnamed warriors of the Earth) target the status quoism and the intention of the monopoly gang and to break this monopoly, she creates a light of hope through her poems. In many of her poems, she hurts the prevailing social disparity in the country with different attitudes. Sometimes she used to write in the form of questions and sometimes directly. In her poems, there is a wonderful advice to destroy the established system and traditional perspective and interpret it from a new perspective. It is not without reason that she describes light as more dangerous than darkness. This rare coincidence of Adivasidom proves her poems to be different from others.

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Sunil Gayakwad

Sunil Gayakwad of the Bhil community is a well-known signature of First Nations (tribal) literature. Till now many of his poetry works and story books have been published in Bhili and Marathi language, but this is the first book to be published in Hindi. He was born on 1 June 1977 in the house of mother Devaki Bhil and father Appa Bhil. He is a resident of Bhawali village of district Jalgaon (Maharashtra). By profession, he is a teacher in a government school.

Dakait Devasing Bhil Ke Bachche

Dakait Devasing Bhil Ke Bachche (Sons of Dacoit Devsingh Bhil) is the first Hindi novel by Sunil Gayakwad. It is autobiographical novel in which he starts telling the story from his grandfather's time, then tells the story of his parents and himself. Meaning, it is a story of three generations. During the British period, the Bhil revolutionaries of Khandesh have been called dacoits and thieves. In this sense, the novel represents the Khandeshi Bhil community of Maharashtra. This is a novel telling about the British era till the present, which presents the great story of the culture, language, life and struggle of the Bhils.

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Remon Longku

Remon Longku was born on 6 January 1996 in the Tangsa (Jugli) First Nation community. His mother is Susheela Longku and father is Rennong Longku. His birth place is Kuthung village located in Changlang (Arunachal Pradesh) district. He is a graduate in Hindi from Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and M.Phil. and is currently pursuing PhD from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong (Meghalaya). Kongkong-Fangfang: Stories of the Headhunters of Arunachal is his first published work.

Kongkong-Fangfang: Stories of the Headhunters of Arunachal

Till date, Tangsa Adivasi literature has not been composed in English, Hindi or mother tongue in the Tangsa First Nation community. From this point of view, 'Kongkong-Fangfang: Stories of the Headhunters of Arunachal' is the first original work and book published in Hindi language by the Tangsa community. In the presented collection of stories, the philosophy, culture and contemporary problems of the Tangsa communities of Changlang, Longding and Tirap in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh in North-East India have been depicted very effectively and vividly. The stories in the collection also make us aware of the problems that these people are suffering from and are struggling for survival.

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