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The aftermath of a deception, as judged by Twitter
, Mithu Sanyal’s dynamic and ambitious debut novel, delivers a bold satire of our digital existence. Set in and around the campus of a modern-day university in Düsseldorf, this story tracks the thorny revelations of blogger and postgraduate student Nivedita, known by her punning pen name i. She discovers that her supervisor, Saraswati, an internationally renowned professor of post-colonial studies, is in fact a white woman pretending to be Indian. Understandably, uproar ensues. Unfortunately, Nivedita has recently praised