Satakshi Malaviya

Satakshi has an M.phil in Political Science from the University of Delhi, New Delhi. Satakshi is a Research Scholar and a proud radical feminist who is sensitive towards gender issues.

Welcome Madam President: An Identity Victory with a Moment of Pride

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The country is celebrating the victory of India’s 15th President ‘Droupadi Murmu’, who is not only the India’s first youngest president- securing the office at the age of 64, but also the first person belonging to Scheduled Tribe (ST) community who is elected as the President of India. Not only this, Ms. Murmu is the second female President, after Pratibha Devi Patil, to hold the office of the President of India. BJP nominated- National Democratic Alliance’s Presidential candidate Ms. Murmu, has won the Presidential elections by polling over approx. 64 per cent of all votes which exposes the fact that around a dozen of MPs and more than 100 MLAs cross voted for her.

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Politics of Body: Part One- Female Body

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Today’s feminist discourse often criticises age old Indian societal cliché- ‘boys should not cry and girls should not laugh loudly in public’. The term ‘politics of body’ constitutes two concepts in which the first concept ‘politics’ signifies the power or power relation and ‘body’ signifies the human body on which this power is exercised.

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Remembering Didi Contractor: A Self Taught Architect and Recipient of Nari Shakti Puraskar

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The modern path of development seems highly unsustainable and a threat to nature but Didi Contractor had chosen an alternative path of sustainable building and nature loving architecture. She was the pioneer of nature friendly construction as she worked on the principle that ‘build the future with those materials which can go back to nature’ and she introduced her brand of designs depends on mud, bamboo, slate and stone.

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