Sohini Chattopadhyay

Oct 9, 2024 | sohinichattopadhyay.com | Sohini Chattopadhyay

In our two epics, Ram, Lakshman, Arjun are star warriors, but battles are not won on their skill alone. Divine intervention and deception are needed. The story of Durga’s 10-day marathon battle that cemented her place among the top of the gods underlines her strength, willpower and stamina—all the things that count in sportThe story about physical exercise that I hear most often growing up, is the story of the gods Ganesh and Karthick.

Oct 7, 2024 | sohinichattopadhyay.com | Sohini Chattopadhyay

Case CXXIV: In 1890 in the Calcutta High Court a fully developed Bengali, aged 35, was charged with causing the death as above of his child-wife, a girl aged 11 years and 3 1/2 months…The injury inflicted was a rent in the vaginal wall on the right side of the os uteri, measuring 13/4 inches in length and 1 inch in breadth. Copious hæmmorrhage took place immediately after intercourse. The girl died of exhaustion 13 1/2 hours after the act.

Sep 21, 2024 | newindianexpress.com | Sohini Chattopadhyay |Sudarsan Maharana

“I could look at Vinesh’s sad defeat in the light of the wrestlers’ protest. It was the events of last year that led to her opting for the 50 kg category,” she pointed out. Chattopadhyay, however, clarified that she has nothing to comment on the Olympic rules as it is there for all. “People’s views are divided over the issue and some consider the Olympic rules for women are unfair, but rules are rules,” she said.

Aug 6, 2024 | indianexpress.com | Sohini Chattopadhyay

In 1968, the Olympics had introduced compulsory chromosome testing of all female athletes with the Barr Body test, a cheek swab. Sport has a long and disturbing history of sex testing beginning with what are known as the nude parades — being made to walk naked before a panel of doctors. But only women are subjected to sex testing in sport because the anxiety is that men will sneak into women’s competitions to bag medals easily.

Aug 2, 2024 | sohinichattopadhyay.com | Sohini Chattopadhyay

Competitive sport has a long and unsettling history of forcing women athletes to prove their womanhood. Compulsory sex testing was introduced at the 1966 European Athletics Championships in Budapest, which required women to walk in the nude before a group of gynaecologists. One reason for this was the suspicion that athletes from the Soviet bloc were pumped with dope.