Soumya Bhattacharya

The writer is the author of Thirteen Kinds of Love

The writer is the author of Thirteen Kinds of Love

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Stories by the author

• Five things we learned in the second week of Cricket World Cup 2023

  
  22 Oct 2023 12:49 AM IST
• Five things we learned in the first week of the world cup

  
  13 Oct 2023 01:06 AM IST
• On paper and prayer, India ought to win the World Cup. But, chances are, they won’t

  
  04 Oct 2023 11:03 PM IST
• View: Watching sports from an airplane seat can be flightfully strange

  
  30 Sep 2023 11:00 PM IST
• Dumb down your smartphone! Nothing's smarter

  
  26 Aug 2023 10:37 PM IST
• The blood jet is poetry, but if there's stoppage?

  
  22 Jul 2023 09:44 PM IST
• Communal joys of following a Test match on OBO

  
  24 Jun 2023 11:00 PM IST
• City City, Bang Bang: Manchester City have not merely raised the bar, they have changed the game

  
  27 May 2023 11:11 PM IST
• View: The stereotypical notion of Indian food in the West needs to be smashed

  
  22 Apr 2023 11:00 PM IST
• View: BBC's craven conduct underlines what lies at the heart of the corporation

  
  25 Mar 2023 08:31 PM IST
• View: Rushdie's ground, anywhere but beneath his feet

  
  25 Feb 2023 11:00 PM IST
• Lit fest zoo: Readers, lounge lizards, and writerly creature

  
  28 Jan 2023 09:26 PM IST
• Goblin mode, gaslight, permacrisis: A look at 2022's words of the year

  
  24 Dec 2022 11:00 PM IST
• FIFA-Fo-Fum, smell the rot of football's charm

  
  26 Nov 2022 07:29 PM IST
• Why Qatar World Cup is the most blatant case of sports used as country’s propaganda tool

  
  6 mins read18 Nov 2022
• The other pandemic-engendered WFH: Watch From Home

  
  29 Oct 2022 09:48 PM IST
• Resentment towards the side-hustle with no conflict of interest stems from a feudal attitude

  
  24 Sep 2022 11:11 PM IST
• Roger Federer, 41, announces his retirement from tennis; why does the loss feels so personal?

  
  16 Sep 2022 10:52 PM IST
• Football gets (almost) all out for no loss

  
  27 Aug 2022 11:25 PM IST
• View: Disguise and impersonation are at the heart of spy thrillers

  
  5 mins read30 Jul 2022
• OTTisation of English: How OTT is changing the way urban India speaks

  
  5 mins read25 Jun 2022
• Sport a telly, celebrate extra time

  
  21 May 2022 10:39 PM IST
• If being seen working is more important to you than actual working, this isn't for you

  
  23 Apr 2022 11:00 PM IST
• The art of smoking: What a beautiful drag this ritual is

  
  26 Mar 2022 08:53 PM IST
• When sports fans created a world only from the radio commentators’ words

  
  12 Feb 2022 11:00 PM IST
• View: No more a superhero, our own bratman can try being batman again

  
  22 Jan 2022 10:45 PM IST
• View: Is the good now the bad? Shows are rooting for robbers and thieves to win

  
  27 Nov 2021 10:22 PM IST
• View: Breaking the Bond of our times

  
  30 Oct 2021 11:00 PM IST
• A Remembrance of forgetting about things past: A look back at Gabriel Garcia Marquez's final years

  
  5 mins read25 Sep 2021
• US Open 2021: After a blip at the Olympics, Novak Djokovic goes in as the favourite

  
  5 mins read28 Aug 2021
• View: Covid-19 has changed the way we communicate

  
  24 Jul 2021 11:00 PM IST
• So, who’s your Euro desh? Indian football fans are spoilt for choice

  
  5 mins read19 Jun 2021
• View: The long and short of finding joy in lengthy pleasures

  
  5 mins read22 May 2021