India, Dec. 2 -- A recent post on X (formerly Twitter) about a completed PhD dissertation has caused a stir online, not because of the achievement itself but due to the unusual topic of the research. Dr Ally Louks, who claims to teach at the University of Cambridge, shared the update that she had successfully delivered her dissertation and passed her "viva with no corrections." While the accomplishment would typically go unnoticed, her thesis subject immediately caught the internet's attention.

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Dr Louks revealed that her thesis, titled "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose,"...