By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist
I was recently trolled by a group of people. This was because I apparently had stated a claim that women are not powerful in India. I tried to figure out from where they had derived this alleged statement of mine and eventually realised that I had made a statement where I said that the word ‘shakti’ is feminine and the word ‘shaktiman’ is masculine. Now, while we use the feminine form to talk about power, we use the male form to represent the powerful. So, it was this sentence which was misquoted — as usual — by trolls, saying that Devdutt claims that women are not powerful in Hinduism.
