Shoma Chaudhary is a journalist, curator, and political commentator who has won numerous awards. She co-founded Tehelka, an investigative public interest news magazine, THiNK, an international conference of ideas, and Algebra- The Arts & Ideas Club, a platform for live conversations with prominent Indians, as well as Lucid Lines, an intellectual property company. She has received numerous honours, including the prestigious Ernest Hemingway Award for Political Journalism, the Mumbai Press Club Award for Political Journalism, and the Ramnath Goenka Award.