IMSwaminathan Soumya

Soumya Swaminathan was born in Palakkad in 1989. She won three Indian junior girls' championships, in 2005, 2006 and 2008. In 2009, she became world junior girls' champion in Argentina, finishing ahead of Deysi Cori and Betül Cemre Yıldız on tiebreak. She won the Indian women's championship in 2010 and the Commonwealth women's title in 2012.

Swaminathan shared first place in the women's Moscow Open in 2016 and won bronze in that year's Asian Women's Championship. She represented India in three Women's World Team Championships between 2011 and 2015, earning an individual bronze medal in 2013. She also played at the 2012, 2016 and 2022 Olympiads. In 2018, she withdrew from the Asian Team Championship in Iran in protest at the compulsory headscarf rule. She holds the WGM and IM titles.