Divya Dwivedi
Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher and author based in India. She is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her work focuses on ontology, metaphysics, literature, and philosophy of politics.
Quotes
[edit]- We must begin to recognize [that] national forms of politics are the locus of the real crisis, and democracy can now be secured only through the assertion that the world belongs to all.
- "Philosopher Divya Dwivedi Among Latest Targets of India’s Right Wing", Protean Magazine (October 5, 2023)
- Hindu Right is the corollary of the idea that India is a Hindu majority population and this is a false majority. The Hindu religion was invented in the early 20th century in order to hide the fact that the lower caste people are the real majority of India.
- Reported in “Two philosophers and a political theorist: An allegory of Indian public sphere”, Mathrubhumi (November, 2022). Original source NDTV, October 2019.
- But as we prepare for the future, there’s something that philosophy cautions us; the world is not an infinitely malleable matter that we can freely mould according to our world picture, whether through technological exuberance or hypophysical discipline.
- When the white nationalists come, I will be right here, waiting, with all the arms that I can gather to give their final farewell. Know this, the white nationalist moth is now whirling faster as it is approaching the flame.
- People Without Exception: Interview With Divya Dwivedi, Protean Magazine (September, 2025)
- There are two Indias. There is an India of the past, of the racialised caste order which oppressed the majority population, the lower castes. And this is also the India of the ‘Aryan interest’ which is now anxiously expressing itself in the ‘Aryan’ name Bharata. And then there is the India of the future, that is an egalitarian India which would be without caste oppression and it would be without Hinduism and that is the India that is not yet represented but is waiting, longing to show its visage to the world.
- From the interview with France 24, quoted in Death threats over remarks on Hinduism: Kerala writers stand in solidarity with Divya Dwivedi (13 September 2023, Mathrubhumi)
