The first tribal president of India has made a big disclosure that her teacher gave her the name Droupadi, which was taken from a character in the epic 'Mahabharata'. She disclosed that a teacher at school had changed her Santhali name 'Puti' to Droupadi in an interview with an Odia video magazine some time ago. 'I didn't always go by the name Droupadi. My teacher, who was not from my hometown of Mayurbhanj, was the one who gave it to me,' Murmu said to the magazine. When the magazine asked her why she goes by the name Droupadi, which sounds like a character from the 'Mahabharata,' she said that her teacher did not like it and changed it permanently. Additionally, she had mentioned that her name had been altered multiple times, going from 'Durpadi' to 'Dorpdi.' She claimed that in Santhali tradition, names are immortal. The 15th President of India, Murmu, took the oath of office on Monday. During a