Room 201, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
The Day I Became a Runner: A Women’s History of India Through the Lens of Sports is not a history of Indian sportswomen in as much as it is a history of independent India told through the lens of sportswomen. It travels the decades from the late 1930s to the current moment through the lives of nine women athletes. It is a project that aims to map women’s citizenship in India.
Sohini Chattopadhyay is an award-winning journalist, National Award-winning film critic and writer. The Day I Became a Runner received the New India Foundation Fellowship and a Howard J Buffett women’s journalism grant. In additon to these awards, she is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka journalism prize and the Human Rights Press Awards citation among others. She is currently Associate Professor at the CEPT University Writing Center.
