Divya Dwivedi is an accomplished Indian philosopher, writer and scholar. She is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where she teaches ontology, metaphysics, literature, and political philosophy. She studies two philosophies – deconstruction and post-metaphysics.
Wiki/Biography
Divya Dwivedi was born in 1981 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (42 years old; as of 2023). After completing her schooling, she joined Shri Ram Madam College, Delhi, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. She subsequently received her MA from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. After that, she did her master’s degree from the University of Delhi and later completed her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
appearance
Hair color: brown
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Her father Rakesh Dwivedi is a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.
Divya Dwivedi’s father Rakesh Dwivedi
Her mother Sunitha Dwivedi is a freelance writer.
Divya Dwivedi’s mother Sunitha Dwivedi
husband
She is unmarried.
other relatives
Her grandfather SN Dwivedi was a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Divya Dwivedi’s grandfather SN Dwivedi
Her maternal grandfather, Raj Mangal Pande, was a minister in the Indian federal government.
Divya Dwivedi’s maternal grandfather, Raj Mangal Pande
Profession
In 2003, Divya Dwivedi joined St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and started working as an interim Assistant Professor. From January 2011 to April 2012, she worked as a part-time teacher in the English Department of Delhi University. In 2013-14, she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Fiction Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. In June 2017, Divya Dwivedi was elected as a member of the Literary Theory Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). In 2022, she was elected to the Executive Council of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN).
literature
Divya Dwivedi co-edited Public Sphere Beyond 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)
In 2019, she co-authored a book called Gandhi and Philosophy: On the Anti-Politics of Theology.
Cover of the book “Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics”
In 2022, Divya Dwivedi edited a book called The Virality of Evil.
Cover of the book “Evil Virus” (2022)
She is the editor and co-founder of the international multilingual journal Philosophical World Democracy.
Excerpt from an article in the magazine Philosophical World Democracy
Her work in psychoanalysis contributes to understanding the connections between psychology, popular thinking, and politics.
dispute
Speech on Hinduism during G20 Summit (2023)
In 2023, Divya Dwivedi sparked controversy when she spoke about Hinduism in an interview with French news channel France 24 at the G20 summit in Delhi. She said India would have a future without Hinduism, which upset many social media users. Divya Dwivedi said in an interview that there are two types of India, one is the caste system that oppresses many people, and the other is the future India without caste oppression and without Hinduism, waiting for the world to see.
Facts/Trivia
- Her research areas include literary philosophy, psychoanalytic philosophy, literary theory and criticism, formal inquiry into fictionality, critical philosophy of caste and race, Gandhi’s political thought, political cartoons and O V Vijayan’s novels.
- In 2022, Divya Dwivedi is a Researcher at the Husserl Archives at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
- Dwivedi believes that philosophy is a tool to challenge the status quo and should be linked to politics. She disagrees with labeling her philosophy, arguing that both postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism support India’s upper castes. She advocated the destruction of India’s caste system to achieve true equality.
- Divya Dwivedi has given numerous international interviews, including “The proletariat is all those deprived of collective imagination at ILNA,” “Interview with Divya Dwivedi at UNESCO,” “#ELLEVoices: Divya Dwivedi on how she #ImaginingTheWorldToBe Elle Magazine and Asian Lite’s Professor Dwivedi said a French-style revolution alone could help India escape from its current caste stagnation. ”
Divya Dwivedi attended the meeting
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