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The Day I Became a Runner

A Women's History of India through the Lens of Sport
The Day I Became a Runner
Sohini Chattopadhyay Fourth Estate Sports Books English Paperback 9789365692563
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The Day I Became a Runner starts on a striking premise-that, since running is a solitary activity conducted in the public sphere, women who take up this sport pose a more direct challenge to patriarchy than those who play sports such as badminton, cricket and tennis. To support this thesis, award-winning journalist Sohini Chattopadhyay presents the stories of nine athletes spanning the history of independent India from the 1940s to the present moment.

Whether it is Ila Mitra, who could have been the first India-origin woman at the 1940 Olympics, P.T. Usha, who redefined the 1980s and the decades that followed, or Lalita Babar, the first Indian woman to make it to an individual Olympic track final after Usha, each of the women in this book is a remarkable figure of post-Independence India. The Day I Became a Runner posits a compelling, alternative account of the Indian republic chronicled through the lives of women athletes.

Sohini Chattopadhyay is a journalist and a National-award-winning film critic. Her writing has been commissioned by The New York Times, The Guardian, The Lancet Psychiatry, South China Morning Post, The Hindu, Mint, Süeddeutsche Zeitung, and leading national and international publications. Her work has been translated into German, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam. She is a recipient of the New India Foundation fellowship.

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