Journalist, editor, moderator, curator - Shoma Chaudhury has been shaping public discourse for decades. She has hosted more than 500 conversations with the world’s most cutting-edge minds.
Her large body of work in defence of a just & plural society earned her the Ernest Hemingway Award for political journalism, and the Chameli Devi Award for best woman journalist for “going where angels fear to tread”. In 2011, Newsweek listed her as one of “150 women who shake the world.”
Currently, she is founder of Lucid Lines, an intellectual properties company passionate about the power of ideas and conversation. She curates SYNAPSE, a first-of-its-kind science tech society conference, and anchors IGNITION, a pop-up platform exploring keys to different worlds.
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Mam, what are you trying to do in this life with same sex marriage? What is life? Full Stop. Yuo are questionining the very nature of life! Nothing to do with if we have options in society for the other gender to live peacefully? we should.!
A moderator had to be a moderator.. If you want to participate in the debate then you have to be invited as a debater. Btw JSD won everything. JSD literally walked over the moderators debate
Talmiz was very blunt and spoke 'non-diplomatically'. I dont see why there is a big pushback against him in the comments section. People are not giving specific data points
The woman and the particular diplomat....spent all their time blaming India,and Indian govt....discussion clearly sponsored by anti india agencies.....could be some left liberal woke jihadi supportimg group in the US
Club of Deracinated ex ‘Experts’ desperately looking for relevance One wonders why the Nadars spend even a paisa on such lazy nothings. The depth of insecurity and desire for white man’s acceptance doesn’t leave Indians even after billions of dollars. We truly have a long way to go to decolonize our minds
What comes to mind when one hear the word Civil activist, right activist : Elite upper caste, rich, "useful" Idiots, "intellectuals". Does this mean poor, common lower caste people are not activist or fight for their right or others rights.... They do they just don't get platform to speak all the platforms are occupied or captured by elite upper caste rich upper class intellectual people..... This is how upper cares still wield power no matter which field it is.......i despise those call themselves activists.
Shoma's ideological angularity and personal proclivities are usually deeply problematic . Yet one has to grant her professional competence and sharpness of intellect. She can carry her agenda when needed way better than Karan Thapar. This was however a brilliantly conducted debate and her choice of Talmiz is clever knowing his graceless display of prejudice and pique against Modi's policies. The other two were top class as usual. Talmiz has done us a huge favour by his loutish pronouncements which gave the other two the opportunity to clear the air to perfection.
He is 100 times more intelligent than Stalin. It is a pity that DMK dumped him rather promoting him. He lost his job for pointed out the scam of chief ministers family. EVR would be so proud.
Two prominent diplomats ignored few facts, accepting three rigged elections openly, supporting vigorously corrupt Hasina and coercing lopsided trade deals. No patriotic Bangladeshis can ignore or tolerate these.
It is not correct that isreal was the problem of europe but all jews were persicuted by muslims and forced them to move europe and other places as kashmiri muslims did to hindus, and had been doing afganistan, Pakistan, and bangla desh. Isreal had helped us in our crises.
Lot of leftists sitting in the crowd attending Shomas debates but of course applauding the ex ambassador in the center, just being loud but offering no concrete solutions
Excellent conversation. Shoma I wish our local issues like lynching human rights press freedom health care and education. Your programs are so encompassing and a pleasure to watch
Talmiz contradicts himself hilariously, flip-flops, and spouts BS. This is a third-rate analysis with low substance and high spectacle. He looks at the world not from a nationalist/internationalist/liberal/realist/feminist lens but from an Islamist lens! Wants India to be equal with her neighbors but tacitly implies US hegemony! This guy was a diplomat in the Gulf but could not convey the Indian POV about Kashmir. It took Modi to take Indo-Gulf ties to another level. Khud tamasha kar raha hai aur dusre Tamasha kar rahe hai bak raha hai...
Ye Talmiz us haraami Ansari ka chela hai, jisne Iran me hamare assets ke saath treason Kiya tha. He should have been questioned as to why Arab nations are not siding with Palestinians openly? If they are not then why should we. In Bangladesh, what happened during BNP regime? We had such an actively hostile govt which was creating terror problems in our NE. By siding with Hasina, we reaped peace dividend for 15 1:03:59 years. We can wait for 5 years more. And by that time, we will have enough economic heft to ward off the termites.
