Mugdha Kalra
An award-winning television journalist with over twenty years in India's newsrooms, Mugdha turned the craft of storytelling toward a mission: making business, policy and inclusion conversations impossible to ignore.
Two decades on air.
One story worth telling.
Mugdha Kalra began her career in the live newsrooms of Aaj Tak, Zee News, NDTV India and IBN7, becoming a familiar prime-time anchor. Today, she is a familiar face on CNBC-TV18, hosting flagship conversations on business, entrepreneurship, technology, sustainability and leadership, and interviewing some of India's most influential CEOs, policymakers and changemakers.
In 2021, the BBC named her among the world's 100 Most Inspiring and Influential Women for advancing neurodiversity awareness. Inspired by raising her autistic son, Madhav, she co-founded Not That Different, the movement behind India's first children's comic book on autism and an imprint that has published over eleven books by neurodiverse authors and caregivers.
She is pursuing a PhD on assisted living models for neurodivergent adults in India, serves on the advisory committee of the Assisted Living Federation of Care Organisations, and is the author of I See You, I Get You, the self-care guide for special needs parents.
Three ways she moves the conversation
Journalism
Prime-time anchoring, exclusive interviews and flagship series on business, sustainability, AI and the impact economy.
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Advocacy
The Not That Different movement, NeuroUnity corporate programmes, and PhD research on the future of neurodivergent adults in India.
The movement →
The Book
I See You, I Get You, the Amazon-bestselling self-care guide that puts caregivers at the centre of the inclusion conversation.
About the book →Filmmaker, podcaster, founder
Mugdha wrote three seasons of Regiment Diaries for Netflix and EPIC, authored Audible originals on the Indian Army and the feminine divine, and won recognition at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Awards for her documentary on 75 years of the National Defence Academy. She hosts the podcasts Bakstage with Mugdha and Seat at the Table, and founded Think Indic, a leadership and culture design studio.
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