Sohini Chattopadhyay
About Sohini Chattopadhyay
Sohini Chattopadhyay is a writer, journalist, and National Award-winning film critic. Her book The Day I Became a Runner: A Women’s History of India Through the Lens of Sports maps women’s citizenship in independent India through the lives of athletes. She works in the CEPT Writing Center, and offers two elective courses – Sport, Nation and the City and Architecture + Design Writing
- Writing
- Qualitative research
- Newswriting
- Professional writing
- Writing
- Sport,the Nation,the City and the Possibility of Community — S‑2025
- Film and the City — M‑2025
- Architecture + Design Writing — M‑2025
Symposium
- An Olympic Dream An Olympic Dream: opening panel discussion on India’s chances at the 2024 Paris Olympics Organiser: Asia Society India and Jindal Sport Foundation Venue: Mumbai
Workshop
- Death Work and Caste in the Public Health System in Kolkata, India Death Care and Work in Adia Held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 31 October — 2 November 2025
Conference
- NA
- Speaker at Difficult Dialogues conference, Goa 2017
- Speaker at Human Rights in Childbirth conference, Mumbai 2017
- 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
Journal
- How Sports Shapes City Culture, panel discussant, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bengaluru, May 2022
- Death Labour and Death Technology, IIM Calcutta, PhD Cohort, July 2021
- Speaker, International Association of Bioethics World Congress, Bengaluru 2018
- Reporting on obstetric abuse, a talk organised by the Wellcome Trust of London and the British Council, Kolkata, 2016