Our Alibi Was Trending: A Digital Alibi Again

By Prashant Mishra

When a photograph surfaces online tagging Navya Pillai on a night she cannot account for, the entire fishing settlement of Kottaparambu seems to have already agreed on a version of events that excludes her. Navya, a startup founder whose company runs on data and trust, begins pulling at threads that unravel a conspiracy linking a viral activist account to the very institution it publicly attacks. With her younger sibling shadowing her investigation and a stolen handwritten timeline raising the stakes, Navya must decide whether exposing the truth is worth confessing the secret that ties her to the case in the first place.