: The ‘rashtrapatni’ row should make us rethink the everyday bias against women in our languages #IndiaNEWS During his Independence Day address on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised

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The ‘rashtrapatni’ row should make us rethink the everyday bias against women in our languages #IndiaNEWS
During his Independence Day address on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised that it was important that in speech and conduct “we do nothing that lowers the dignity of women�. He urged his fellow citizens to “get rid of everything that insults women in our daily life, nature and culture�. One wonders if this was in response to the controversy that erupted at the end of July over Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury referring to President Droupadi Murmu as “rashtrapatni�.Days after Murmu made history as the first tribal woman to assume the highest constitutional office in India, she unwittingly became the centre of a slugfest between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress. BJP minister and Member of Parliament described Chowdhury’s remark “demeaning� while Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said it was a “deliberate sexist insult�. Both houses of Parliament were adjourned amid heated debates and protests over the matter.Chowdhury apologised to President Murmu stating that his use of the contentious word was “a slip of tongue� and a result of him not knowing Hindi. His remarks seemed to suggest that he was under the impression that the feminine form of the Hindi word for president, rashtrapati, was rashtrapatni – wife...Read more

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