Aug 6, 2022
reminder that the name of india's first tribal president, and also the second female president, is Puti Tudu, and not Draupadi Murmu.
though her last name changed through marriage, her teachers had changed her first name in primary school because apparently they didn't like it.
the santhali tribe of odisha, which she comes from, has a custom of names not dying, which is why girls are given their grandmother's name and boys their grandfather's.
so congrats to india on our second female president, and our first ever adivasi president, Puti Tudu.