Sohini is a writer, journalist, and National-award-winning film critic. Her book The Day I Became a Runner, published by HarperCollins India in October 2023, attempts an alternate history of the republic through the lives of nine women athletes. Her writing has been commissioned by The New York Times, Guardian, Al Jazeera, Hindu, Mint and the leading publications of the world. Her work has been translated into German, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam. She is a recipient of the New India Foundation fellowship the Ramnath Goenka journalism prize, the Human Rights Press Awards citation among others.

Her work is archived on her website https://sohinichattopadhyay.com/