Fieldwork as a Sex Object by Meena Kandasamy

I download the video. I mute the audio before replaying it frame by frame, in dread, in desperation. I watch it four times. It is not me. It is my face. Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a communist on Twitter (her bio omits a cameo on reality TV and millionaire daddy who runs the show at Delhi High Court). When a deepfake porno of her 'forwarded many times' by WhatsApp aunties goes viral, the truth finally catches up. On her birthday, Amy and allies - a Dalit, a consenting adult code-named the Child Solider and white trustafarian India - battle a stoning in the digital town square that could cancel even Kim Kardashian. Her executioners? An unhinged cartel of virgins styling themselves after V for Vendetta - except these anonymous keyboard warriors are on a merciless crusade to eradicate desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.