Identitti

What a scandal: Prof Dr Saraswati is WHITE! It couldn’t be worse. The Professor of Postcolonial Studies in Düsseldorf was the goddess of all debates concerning identity – and described herself as a person of colour. Now, as if Sally Rooney, Beyoncé and Frantz Fanon were watching Sex Education together, a hunt for her ‘real’ belonging begins. While the internet hounds Saraswati and demonstrators call for her dismissal, her student Nivedita asks her the most intimate questions. Mithu Sanyal writes with delightful self-irony and liberating knowledge. No one leaves the whirlwind of this novel unchanged.