Your Perfect Dream Girl: Influencers, AI, and the
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Penguin Random House 2026
‘The most vital feminist book to come out of India in years’
Priya Ramani, Journalist
‘Urgent, unsparing, a remarkable debut’
Karuna Nundy, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
How do we consume women online, and what brought us to this point?
My name is Sukhnidh. 15 years ago, I became an influencer. Now a 27 year old researcher, I sit down to analyse every DM, selfie, and insecurity collected over a decade—and reckon with what happened to my girlhood.
Through 25 letters to a faceless man I once met in a dream, I trace what shapes young urban women’s lives online—beauty, virality, snark forums, dating apps, deepfakes, AI girlfriends—and stare down the churning abyss of how we got here.
A dossier of real stories, journal entries, love letters men sent me growing up, and interviews with industry insiders, Your Perfect Dream Girl builds a single argument: women are the most lucrative product of every technological revolution, and AI is about to industrialise every broken part of how we consume them.
