Sohini is an award-winning independent journalist and writer. She won the National Award for film criticism in 2019, a merit at the Human Rights Press Awards at Hong Kong in 2019, the Ramnath Goenka award for feature reporting in 2015, and the International Red Cross and Press Institute of India award for humanitarian reporting in 2014. Her writing has been translated into German and Bengali, and has been commissioned by The New York Times, Guardian, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Al Jazeera, South China Morning Post, Caravan magazine and leading publications across the world. She was named one of the New India Foundation fellows in 2021 for her book project on women athletes in post-Independent India.
