Name Droupadi was given by my teacher, says President Droupadi Murmu
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The first tribal President of India name Droupadi, based on a character of the epic ‘Mahabharata' was given by her school teacher. In an interview with an Odia video magazine some time ago, she revealed that her Santhali name “Puti” was changed to Droupadi by a teacher in school. “Droupadi was not my original name. It was given by my teacher who hailed from another district, not from my native Mayurbhanj,” Murmu told the magazine.