It’s decided. Pratibha Patil will be addressed as RASHTRAPATI. Allaying the debate over what a woman president should be addressed as, Patil was on Wednesday addressed as Rashtrapati when she was sworn in. While women activists argued that the term is ‘gender-biased’ and ‘patriarchal’, experts said it is just a nomenclature for a constitutional post and had nothing to do with gender.
So be it. After all, what Patil does in the five years of her tenure hardly has much to do with being Madam President or simply President.
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