Let’s shift tone slightly—toward quiet revolution in the digital trenches, with a character fighting power from inside the system, line by line, flaw by flaw.
Name: Sharvani Kulkarni
Age: 34
Caste Background: Dalit
Region: Pune, Maharashtra
Occupation: Senior Data Scientist in a state-run surveillance and analytics agency
Cover Identity: Model employee, mid-level manager, harmless coder
Reality: One of the most dangerous internal saboteurs in the Indian surveillance state
Archetype: The Insider Hacker / Coder of Resistance
Sharvani isn’t a protestor. She’s not on stage or in front of cameras. But she designs the code that tracks millions. And for every algorithm she optimizes, she hides a flaw—a backdoor, a buffer zone, a line of logic that lets someone slip through the cracks.
She’s building a shadow layer of digital resistance under the skin of the state, one syntax loop at a time.
Appearance:
• Short, efficient hair, always in ponytail or messy bun
• Wears faded hoodies over formal pants, Bluetooth always in one ear
• Dark circles from all-night debugging sessions
• Tattoo of Ambedkar’s glasses on her forearm, usually covered
• Desk full of post-its, snack wrappers, and a worn copy of “Annihilation of Caste”
Personality:
• Quiet, sarcastic, unassuming—intensely observant
• Knows how to disappear in a meeting, then rewire the policy
• Doesn’t believe in utopia—but believes in bugs big enough to save lives
• Grieves in silence, fights in silence, but tracks every injustice she prevents like medals
Role in the Surveillance State:
• Works on voter behavior mapping, facial recognition calibration, and “risk sentiment” scoring
• Has planted soft corruptions into key biometric pipelines
• Keeps an encrypted, local-only database of citizens unjustly flagged by her own agency—and releases them just in time
• Has never been caught. Her fingerprints don’t match what the system thinks she looks like
Connections & Tensions:
• Nikhil Rao knows her—but suspects she’s doing more than she says. He doesn’t ask.
• Anagha Menon may be funding her housing through a dummy foundation
• Meenakshi Das tried to interview her. She hung up. Three times.
• Savita Bhargav’s AI division used a model Sharvani corrupted—cost them 19 false arrests
• Kamala Shetty once received an anonymous tip that saved her convoy. It was her.
Wounds & Fire:
• Her brother was jailed during a protest in college. Facial AI picked the wrong person. It was never corrected.
• That’s why she works in the belly of the beast—to rewrite the logic that erases people like her
• Keeps a file of her own profile in the system. Keeps it just above “flagged.”
• Writes poetry in Python. One day, it’ll crash everything.
Quote:
“They call it optimization. I call it quiet sabotage. Same syntax. Different truth.”
Would you like to visualize her next—alone in a government office lit only by code, or in her apartment, surrounded by coffee cups and conscience, writing the line that might one day save a revolution?
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