Tehelka scandal: Know who is Shoma Chaudhury

New Delhi: Shoma Chaudhury is one of the four founding members of the Tehelka magazine and she has now resigned as managing editor. She resigned on Thursday morning after almost a week of facing heavy flak for trying to "cover up" for her boss Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexually assaulting a woman journalist in Goa earlier this month.Chaudhury, in here letter, said “Over the past week, I have been accused of an attempt to cover-up and for not standing by my feminist positions. While I accept that I could have done many things differently and in a more measured way, I reject the allegations of a cover-up because in no way could the first actions that were taken be deemed suppression of any kind.”“As for my feminist positions, I believe I acted in consonance with them by giving my colleague's account precedence over everything else,” she said.“However, despite this, as a result of what's transpired over the past few days, my integrity has repeatedly been questioned by people from our fraternity and, in fact, by the public at large. I would like to take cognisance of this. “I have worked hard for Tehelka for many years and what we have stood for is very dear to me and I hold it in high esteem. I do not want questions raised about my integrity to tarnish the image of Tehelka, which it has done in the past week.“Therefore, I resign as Managing Editor with immediate effect,”.Her actual name is Suparna Chaudhury . She was born in Madhepura, Bihar.She belongs to a family of doctors. She pursued her initial education 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 and pursued her post-graduation from the University of Delhi.Shoma started her career with Doordarshan, directing more than 40 weekly television shows on books and writers.She was associated with India Today and Outlook news magazine. Since then, Chaudhury has been Director of Special Projects and Features Editor at Tehelka. She was appointed Managing Editor of the weekly.She is also a literary critic in India and was one of the judges of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2006.She is one of the shareholders of the publishing company of Tehelka – Anant Media Pvt Ltd.She also has 10% shares in Thinkworks Pvt Ltd. This is the same company that organised the Think Fest in Goa. The company has a total revenue of Rs. 14.2 crore. In addition to that, she also owns 10% shares of Amar Raman India Pvt Ltd.