Shoma Chaudhury is the Managing Editor of Tehelka magazine and is one of its four founders.  She  was educated at St. Helen’s Convent, Kurseong and La Martiniere School, Kolkata. She then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Honours) from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She completed her postgraduate studies from the University of Delhi (South Campus). She lives in Delhi and has two sons.
Earlier she had worked with The Pioneer, India Today, and Outlook. In 2000, she left Outlook to join Tarun Tejpal, and was among the team that started Tehelka.com. Before joining print journalism, Chaudhury was employed at Doordarshan, directing more than 40 weekly television shows on books and writers.
Shoma has written extensively on several areas of conflict in India – people vs State; the Maoist insurgency, the Muslim question, and issues of capitalist development and land grab.
She has won several awards, including the Ramnath Goenka Award and the Chameli Devi Award for the most outstanding woman journalist in 2009. In 2011, Newsweek (USA) picked her as one of 150 power women who “shake the worldâ€. In May 2012, she also won the Mumbai Press Club Award for best political reporting.
Recently, Shoma Chaudhury was in the news as her name cropped up in the Tehelka Sexual Assault Case in which a young woman journalist alleged Sexual Harassment by Tehelka’s editor-in-chief, Tarun Tejpal.
(This Biography  has been Sourced from Wikipedia.org and Tehelka.com)