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CHAUDHURY
CHAUDHURY
FOUNDER, LUCID LINES PRODUCTIONS
AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST
EDITOR, CURATOR, MODERATOR
Winner of Ernest Hemingway Award for political journalism
Winner of Chameli Devi Award for best woman journalist for “going where angels fear to tread’
Picked by Newsweek as one of “150 power women who shake the world”
At the helm of culture-shaping
public discourse
A large body of work
in defence of an open, just, and plural
society
Respected for her eloquence,
evidence-based argument,
ability to engage with adversarial people
and positions
Anchored more than 500 conversations
with the world’s leading
personalities
Invited to speak around the world, including the US, UK, Australia, Morocco, Singapore, Italy,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan
Delivered the prestigious Gandhi
Oration in Sydney in 2018
- Anchor, online show, ENQUIRY, which features conversations with frontline minds & IGNITION, a pop-up platform that explores keys to different worlds.
- Former managing editor and co-founder of Tehelka, an acclaimed investigative and public interest news magazine, where she led a feisty team of journalists. Several of her stories in defence of human rights activists and citizens falsely accused helped free them from wrongful imprisonment.
- Former co-founder & director, THiNK, a paradigm-setting international conference of ideas, where she interviewed people as varied as Robert de Niro, Shahrukh Khan, Thomas Friedman, chiefs of the CIA, Mossad & Taliban, along with a galaxy of philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, political leaders, economists, grassroot workers, and disruptors of every kind
- Former co-founder and director, ALGEBRA, the Arts & Ideas Club, where she interviewed more than 200 eminent Indians from every discipline, at live stage events, across multiple cities.
- Former founder & editor, CATCHNews, a digital newsmagazine
“Shoma is the best convenor of conversation in the world”
-TINA BROWN
Former editor, New Yorker

ADITYA PURI

RITIKA PASSI

NAVAMITA CHANDRA

DEEPANJALI RAO

ANIKET MAITHANI

SIMRAN KAUR

Mallika Vayalombrone

Maitreyi Mittal

Kamal Kant

Himanshu Rana


We are an independent intellectual properties company based in New Delhi, passionate about the power of ideas and conversation.
In a hyper-polarised world, we seek to create middle ground. Space for intelligent connection.
Our goal is to create a vibrant eco-system of platforms that enable informed dialogue, discovery, and debate. Spaces that invigorate minds. Challenge perspectives. Move hearts. Bridge divides.
From large international conferences and festivals to salons, roving pop-up platforms, and digital series, we envision platforms that are not only multi-disciplinary but anti-disciplinary in their mission to disrupt ideological, cultural and political silos.
Our canvas ranges from the urgently public to the intimately personal. We seek to engage with a diverse range of frontline minds across the world to explore the biggest questions of our time. From politics, science, technology, business, and environment to film, literature, art, media, and health. From spirituality, sexuality, and religion to sports, climate, and public policy. We are interested in every facet of the human experience.
Our mission is to connect disparate worlds.
Expand democratic space. Deepen public discourse.
