Mohua Chinappa is an author, former journalist, and one of the top podcasters in the country. The Mohua Show, a weekly podcast, is one of the leading shows in India and has over a million cumulative viewership. Her book Nautanki Saala and Other Stories (2022) is a collection of stories of women from diverse backgrounds, from a tribal Khasi woman who ran a tea stall to a journalist from the Northeast trying to fit in the big city to an unassuming college girl who could not anticipate the ‘consequence’ of her brutish rebuke to a man. She regularly writes for the Telegraph, News18, Daily Guardian, and others.