In "The Day I Became A Runner", Sohini Chattopadhyay goes back in time to explore the Indian woman’s tryst with athletics, specifically running. It explores the challenges women athletes, from Mary D’Souza to PT Usha to Santhi Soundarajan and others, faced in India over the years ago, and still do, two decades into the new millennium. Sohini, an award-winning journalist, says while some things have changed for the better, a lot more needs to be done.
* Competitive running, as you write, is a way out of poverty for men and women and going up the social ladder in India. Have some challenges for women diminished to some extent? Have new ones cropped up?
