Sohel Sarkar is an independent writer, editor, and feminist researcher currently based in Bengaluru. Her work has appeared in Himal Southasian, Bitch Media, Whetstone Magazine, and Color Bloq, among others. You can find her on Twitter: @SohelS28 and Instagram: @sarkar.sohel10.
Kavitha Rao’s Lady Doctors visits the forgotten history of six women who persisted to become pioneering practitioners in the field. With continuing roadblocks for women in medicine, their story remains prescient in our contemporary times. By Sohel Sarkar
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts is a novel of contradictions and duality, straddling an oppressive loneliness and a contented solitude, reclusiveness and intimacy, emptiness and fulfilment. By Sohel Sarkar
In Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders, Isabel Huacuja Alonso demonstrates how radio created transnational communities of listeners and broadcasters, who defied colonial and postcolonial governments’ stranglehold over the medium and maneuvered it for their own purposes. By Sohel Sarkar