Shoma Chaudhary
is a controversial, but very talented Indian journalist and reporter. She has
worked with Tehelka and Catch News. She left Tehelka after Tarun Tejpal alleged
sexual molestation attempt on a Tehelka reporter. She was kicked out of Catch
News, which has, in fact, surprised many independent media watchers of India.
She has also worked with many other reputed media organizations.
Profile of Shoma Chaudhary
Shoma was born
as Suparana Chaudhary. It is not known why she changed her name after doing
schooling with the name Suparana.
She completed
her schooling education from Kolkata after which she took admission in Lady
Shri Ram College, The Delhi University for B.A – Hons.
She had always
been a prolific writer during her college days. On the basis of this skill, she
got job with Doordarshan where she was supposed to make features projects on
books and writers. She later joined The Pioneer where her job profile was a
book reviewer. Being a Left oriented person, she never loved to work with The
Pioneer, a Right Wing Newspaper. Soon, she left this organization to join
Outlook and then India Today.
A short
interaction with Tarun Tejpal convinced Shoma that she will enjoy working with
Tehelka.
Tehelka enjoyed
patronage during UPA regimes and here Shoma made contacts with lots of
politicians.
However, in
2013, she failed to do one thing. She couldn’t take immediate action as the
Managing Editor of Tehelka when a fellow young reporter accused sexual
molestation against none other than Tarun Tejpal.
This case is one
of the biggest blots of Indian journalism history. The person and the entire
group championing the cause of women’s rights got entangled in a sexual
molestation case by none other than a reporter of the same group.
Facing lots of
criticism, Shoma resigned from Tehelka. After a hiatus, Shoma joined Catch news
as its Editor-in-Chief.
Catch News, an
online news website, is promoted by Rajasthan Patrika. However, it is not able
to get sufficient viewership among many other news websites launched recently,
like FirstPost, Scroll.in, The News Minute, The Pint and Swarajmag, among
others.
Rajasthan
Patrika management took a decision of summarily removing Shoma Chaudhary.
However, that is not something you should treat a journalist.
Husband of Shoma Chaudhary
The exact
relationship status of Shoma Chaudhary is not known. I don’t know whether she
is even married or still a single. I couldn’t find any relevant information on
the Internet.
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