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Sonya Duttachoudhury

Sonya Duttachoudhury

It’s 8 pm on a monsoon-y evening in Mumbai.

On a fifth floor building in Juhu, a living room is filling up steadily. Book clubbers. Friends of bookclubbers. Many with snacks, like P…

Apr 23, 2023

It’s 8 pm on a monsoon-y evening in Mumbai.

Apr 23, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

Converse in verse, my mother would say, at the end of a long day, when my siblings and I drowned…

Mostly, this shut us up.

Apr 16, 2023

Converse in verse, my mother would say, at the end of a long day, when my siblings and I drowned…

Apr 16, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

It was a promise that was fated to be broken.

But conditions on the home front were extreme.

Apr 13, 2023

It was a promise that was fated to be broken.

Apr 13, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

An 18 year old who lives in Shivaji Park in Mumbai comes face to face with Crime and Punishment.

Our young man reads the mesmerising story of another young man — the student Raskolnikov, driven to murder an old landlady who asks him for…

Apr 10, 2023

An 18 year old who lives in Shivaji Park in Mumbai comes face to face with Crime and Punishment.

Apr 10, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

A stranger comes to town.

This shakes up the book club.

Apr 6, 2023

A stranger comes to town.

Apr 6, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

Two weeks after the term begins, a new girl arrives.

It is rumoured she has given up IIT to go to Guindy Engineering, and then given up Stanford to come here, to IIM Calcutta.

Apr 5, 2023

Two weeks after the term begins, a new girl arrives.

Apr 5, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

Priya is pregnant.

Once her baby boy is born, she will not be able to make it to the bookclub.

Apr 4, 2023

Priya is pregnant.

Apr 4, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

My friendship with Sonal began with a murder.

I knew her distantly. As an editor at the Sunday Review, she sought stories from freelancers like me. Later, she moved to Midday, and then…

Apr 3, 2023

My friendship with Sonal began with a murder.

Apr 3, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

It’s been two months since the book club began.

Has it lasted? In a busy city like Mumbai?

Apr 2, 2023

It’s been two months since the book club began.

Apr 2, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

It’s everything I want, three little girls, under the age of 10.

Days chockful of childish chatter, baby baths with bubbles and plastic ducks, and bedtime cuddles with bowls full of mush. Plus they’re…

Apr 1, 2023

It’s everything I want, three little girls, under the age of 10.

Apr 1, 2023

Sonya Duttachoudhury

Sonya Duttachoudhury

Journalist. Author of ‘Career Rules : How to Choose Right and Get The Life You Want’ Based in Mumbai. Writes for Mint, Conde Nast & The Hindu. Runs a Book Club.

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