Who wrote the poem 'Jejuri'?
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Correct answer: C. Arun Kolatkar
Explanation
Arun Kolatkar's Jejuri (1976), a sequence on a pilgrimage town near Pune, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1977) for its wry, secular gaze on faith.
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