REPORTAGE
- ‘A Mumbai Homebuilder Finds Success by Reshaping a Neighborhood.’ The New York Times, India Ink, December 14, 2011.
- ‘Child Labor’s Fashionable Face’ The New York Times, India Ink, December 2, 2011.
- 'The 'Entertainer' Caste Hangs on to what it Knows,' NYT, India Ink, November 3, 2011.
- Sonia is now writing a regular column called The Other India for The New York Times' newly launched India site, India Ink. The Other India features new reportage from Sonia's ongoing travels across India on subjects such as children's rights, rural education, India's lower castes and trafficking for labour. Read about Malnutrition in Varanasi's Weavers Community, a profile of a grandmother who runs a tamasha troupe in Maharashtra, and Delhi's Missing Children.
- 'Children who Sell Themselves,' The International Herald Tribune, September 6, 2011.
- ‘Vishal Come Home,’ The India Site, August 4, 2011.
- ‘Dreams of Mumbai,’ The New York Times, July 20, 2011.
- Death of a Son, Grandson, and All of Life's Dreams ♦ An award winning cover story on the farmers of Vidarbha, committing suicide at an average of one every eight hours.
- Death Along the Famished Road ♦ An investigation into the devastation wrought by BT cotton on Vidarbha's farmlands.
- Brink City: There's Starvation Too ♦ An investigation into child malnourishment in Mumbai.
- The Other Half of the Shroud ♦ Profiles of women widowed due to HIV, suffering from HIV themselves.
- Gunny Bag Dreams No More ♦ A profile of hijra activist and writer Revathi.
- Belligerent Begum ♦ A profile of bisexual, cross-dressing Pakistani talk show host Begum Nawazish Ali (Ali Saleem).
- Liberty! Equality! Fraternity! ♦ A profile of transgender Bollywood star Bobby Darling.
- Dancing Queen ♦ A profile of Mumait Khan, a nineteen-year-old born in a chawl, now one of Bollywood's highest paid item number girls.
- The Dying of the Evening Stars ♦ A six part series on the lives of Mumbai's Bar dancers.
- The Other Half ♦ A six part series on the lives of Mumbai's domestic workers.
- An interview with writer Anita Desai.