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Somak Ghoshal

Since 2006, Somak has written on the arts, culture, books, social justice, law, and human rights. His work has appeared in The Telegraph (Kolkata), Mint, Vogue (India), Caravan, Open Magazine, Biblio: A Review of Books, The Voice of Fashion, Scroll, Daily O, CNN Style, Wasafiri, Mekong Review, and Index on Censorship, among others. His first book, Piku's Little World, is a picture book illustrated by Proiti Roy, published by Pratham Books in 2019. His latest book, 10 Indian Heroes Who Help People Live with Dignity, was published by Duckbill, Penguin Random House India.

My pandemic year of excess and accumulation

I spent many hours in 2020 scrolling through Instagram, as the rest of the world was doomscrolling the internet. Although my job demands that I spend a fair amount of time on social media daily, it wasn’t news updates that kept me hooked to the platform, or even the voyeuristic titillation of peeking into other people’s moods and miseries.

Livemint • 9th September 2020

Novak Djokovic’s year of many messes

While the rest of the world may want to cancel 2020 for obvious reasons, for Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, the covid-19 pandemic is only one of several mishaps that have made this year especially miserable for him. From his brazen misconduct with an umpire at the Australian Open in February to the recent fiasco over inadvertently hitting a line judge at the US Open, Djokovic has been in the limelight this year for all the wrong reasons—although tennis watchers aren’t too surprised.

Somak Ghoshal

Somak Ghoshal

Miscellaneous musings

My pandemic year of excess and accumulation

Novak Djokovic’s year of many messes

Of loss and ‘load shedding’ in Calcutta