Mithu Sanyal

[9] Right-wing blogs and websites misrepresented Sanyal's argument as resulting from her Indian heritage, with some falsely claiming that rape was legal in India.

[10][11] On 17 February 2017, an article by Sanyal and the journalist Marie Albrecht published by German newspaper Die Tageszeitung sparked a controversy.

A right-wing German blog called Politically Incorrect published Sanyal's private e-mail address whereupon she received rape and death threats.

[12] Her article was widely discussed in mainstream media[13] and even the German Feminist linguist Luise F. Pusch commented upon it in her blog.

When she turns out to be German and to have darkened her skin, the following scandal is told from the perspective of one of her students, Nivedita, who like Sanyal has a Polish mother and an Indian father.

[20] When the organisation split due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sanyal was among the members leaving the association and was elected to be on the board of the newly founded PEN Berlin.

[25] Among other awards, Sanyal has received the Dietrich-Oppenberg-Medienpreis by the foundation Stiftung Lesen three times for her radio features about cultural history.