Divya Dwivedi is an accomplished Indian philosopher, writer and educationist. She works as an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, where she teaches ontology, metaphysics, philosophy of literature and politics. She studies two types of philosophy – deconstruction and post-metaphysics.
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Wiki/Biography
Divya Dwivedi was born in 1981 (age 42 years; as of 2023) in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. After completing her schooling, she joined Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi to obtain her Bachelor of Arts degree. After this he obtained Master of Arts degree from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. After that, he obtained M.Phil degree from Delhi University and later, he completed his doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi.
Physical Appearance
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
His father, Rakesh Dwivedi, is a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.
Rakesh Dwivedi, father of Divya Dwivedi
His mother Sunita Dwivedi is a freelance writer.
Divya Dwivedi’s mother, Sunita Dwivedi
Husband
He is unmarried.
other relatives
His grandfather SN Dwivedi was a judge in the Supreme Court of India.
Divya Dwivedi’s grandfather is SN Dwivedi.
His maternal grandfather, Raj Mangal Pandey, was a minister in the central government of India.
Divya Dwivedi’s maternal grandfather is Raj Mangal Pandey.
livelihood
In 2003, Divya Dwivedi joined St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and started working as an assistant professor on an ad-hoc basis. He then served as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of English at the University of Delhi from January 2011 to April 2012. In 2013–14, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for Fictionality Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. In June 2017, Divya Dwivedi was elected as a member of the Committee on Literary Theory at the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). In 2022, he was elected as an executive council member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN).
literary work
Divya Dwivedi co-edited the books “Public Sphere from Outside the West” in 2015 and “Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts” in 2018.
Cover of the book ‘Narratology and Ideology – Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts’ (2018)
He co-authored the book “Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics” in 2019.
Cover of the book ‘Gandhi and Philosophy- On Theological Anti-Politics’
In 2022, Divya Dwivedi edited the book “Virality of Evil”.
Cover of the book Virulence of Evil (2022)
She is the editor and co-founder of the international multilingual journal “Philosophy of World Democracy”.
An excerpt from one of the articles in the Philosophy World Democracy Journal
His work on psychoanalysis helps to understand how psychology, public perception, and politics are linked.
controversies
Comments on Hinduism during G20 Summit (2023)
In 2023, Divya Dwivedi had courted controversy by talking about Hinduism in a conversation with France 24, a French news channel, during the ongoing G20 summit in Delhi. He had said that India’s future would be without Hinduism, which angered many social media users. In her interview, Divya Dwivedi said that there were two types of India – one with the caste system that oppressed many people, and the other, a future India without caste oppression and Hinduism, which the world is waiting to see.
Facts/General Knowledge
- His research areas include philosophy of literature, philosophy of psychoanalysis, literary theory and criticism, formal investigation of fictionality, critical philosophy of caste and ethnicity, Gandhi’s political thought, political cartoons, and the novels of OV Vijayan.
- In 2022, Divya Dwivedi was a Fellow at the Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
- According to Dwivedi, philosophy is a tool to challenge the status quo and should be linked to politics. He disagrees with labeling one’s philosophy and believes that both postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism support the upper caste in India. She advocates the destruction of the caste system in India for true equality.
- Divya Dwivedi has been featured in several international interviews, including “The Proletariat Are All Those Who Have Been Denied the Collective Capacity to Imagine at ILNA,” “Interview with Divya Dwivedi at UNESCO,” “#ELLEVoices: Divya Dwivedi How she is #ImaginingTheWorldToBe in Elle Magazine, “says Professor Dwivedi of Asian Light, and “Only a French-style revolution can help India overcome its current caste situation.”
Divya Dwivedi while attending a conference
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