Mohua Chinappa, is an author, columnist, one of the top podcasters in the country of the show called The Mohua Show, a fiery TEDx speaker, a former journalist and a corporate communications specialist.
For someone who has experienced the pain of displacement at a very young age, when Mohua had to move from Shillong to Delhi and now in Bangalore. She feels unsettled and says she moved to cities but somehow never felt at home.
There is no better person to bring out the stories of the unheard voices of those parts of the country that are still distant and thus detached. This is the very reason why Chinappa's writings and her podcast The MOHUA Show, which is one of the leading shows in India, does just that.
Her content (both written and verbal) is fearless, honest and brilliant storytelling about those who have been disadvantaged due to displacement and within that, their gender. Her book that came out early this year Nautanki Saala And Other Stories (Cursive, Oak Publishers) has received tremendous response for shaking belief systems and being a powerful collection that lays bare the lives that form a testament to the cultural-economic shift in the last few decades. It also attempts to strengthen the feminist who hesitates in confiding. It was picked by the Daily Guardian as one of the eight best books of 2022. The PragatiE Vichaar Literary Festival awarded it the PVLF Best Debut Non Fiction Author Award 2023.
The other side of Mohua as a podcaster hosts The MOHUA Show, which started in 2020 with amplifying the voices of rising stars who were facilitating economic and social change in their respective environments. Since then the show has over a million cumulative viewership and has hosted some of the most interesting profiles across the world like activists, authors, entrepreneurs, artists among many others.
Mohua writes opinion pieces regularly for multiple publications. She has been part of various discussions on career and gender topics as a speaker and is regularly invited to speak at TEDx and Josh talks. She has been a moderator on many literature festivals interviewing authors and artists.
She had the honour of making The Election Commission Film, Karnataka 2019. Among the other accolades she has also won several awards including the Change-maker Award from the Hon’ble Governor of Rajasthan and also from the Mumbai based social impact NGO Crowdera.
