[5] In 2003 and 2004, Somini Sengupta covered west and central Africa as the Dakar bureau chief[6] for The New York Times, including the conflict in Darfur.

[7] She won the George Polk Award on "foreign reporting for her articles from Congo, Liberia and other war-torn areas of West Africa" in 2003.

[14] Also in 2021, the Women's Media Center recognized her with one of their "Exceptional Journalism Awards" in her role as an "International Climate Correspondent" for the Times.

[15] Her coverage of lithium mining in Chile was cited as part of a Times team which shared the Overseas Press Club Whitman Bassow Award in 2021.

[16] Sengupta has written one book, The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young, published by W. W. Norton & Company.