Faculty
Sohini Chattopadhyay
Associate ProfessorInstitutional Roles: Writing Center
https://sohinichattopadhyay.com/
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/
Areas of Expertise
Writing, Research, Newswriting, Professional writing
Research/Design Projects in Areas of Expertise
Book: The Day I Became a Runner: A Women's History of India Through the Lens of Sport, published by HarperCollins India, October 2023
Forthcoming:
Hunger's Republic: The Bengal Famine of 1943, a Weekly Journal and the Birthing of Human Rights and Citizenship in India (book-length manuscript, currently in the process of research)
Mahasweta Debi: Writing The Conscience of Post-Independent India (book length manuscript, currently in the proposal stage)
Presented Papers and Invited Lectures in Areas of Expertise
1. 100 years of filmmaker Mrinal Sen, moderated conversation with filmmaker-actor Suhasini Mulay and Kunal Sen, Sen’s son, at Seagull Books, Kolkata, 18 May 2023 + India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 6 May 2023
2. My career as a journalist and critic in India, invited address to MSc students at The University of Glasgow, October 2022 (via zoom), https://echo360.org.uk/media/053505e6-a3d1-4874-a611-94c7e4498b4e/public
3. How Sports Shapes City Culture, panel discussant, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bengaluru, May 2022, link: https://youtu.be/usN8di7R5z0
4. Death Labour and Death Technology, IIM Calcutta, PhD Cohort, July 2021, online, link: https://youtu.be/xk7n1XU_dZM
5. Speaker, International Association of Bioethics World Congress, Bengaluru 2018
6. Speaker at Human Rights in Childbirth conference, Mumbai 2017
8. Speaker at Difficult Dialogues conference, Goa 2017
6. Reporting on obstetric abuse, a talk organised by the Wellcome Trust of London and the British Council, Kolkata, 2016
Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships, Grant-in Aids
National Award for Best Film Critic, Government of India, 2021
New India Foundation fellowship, 2021
Howard J Buffett grant for Women Journalists, 2021
Human Rights Press Awards citation for explanatory writing, Hong Kong, 2019
Median Botschafter India Deutschland fellowship (3 months) affiliated to University of Tubingen, 2017
Asia Journalism Fellowship affiliated to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2016
Bala Kailasam award for writing on the web, 2017
Chevening South Asia Journalism Programme, affiliated to University of Westminster, UK, 2015
Ramnath Goenka prize for feature writing, 2015
International Red Cross and Press Institute of India award for human rights reporting, 2014