Mugdha Kalra — Founder

Mugdha Kalra is an award-winning journalist, content strategist, and inclusion advocate with over two decades of experience in broadcast and business journalism. She anchors and moderates high-impact conversations with CEOs, policymakers, and thought leaders on subjects ranging from corporates, start-ups, Gen AI, and education to sustainability and climate change for leading media houses inclusing CNBC TV18, Forbes India, Moneycontrol, Mint etc. Her career has spanned prime-time anchoring at Aaj Tak, Zee News, NDTV India, and IBN7, followed by a decade at News18 where she steered flagship projects and special series in business journalism. She is the co-founder of Think Indic, a culture and ideas platform that curates conversations, retreats, training modules at the intersection of Indian knowledge systems, contemporary life, and entrepreneurship. Through Think Indic, Mugdha brings together storytelling, research, and community-building to reframe how India’s cultural and intellectual traditions are experienced in modern contexts. In 2021, the BBC named her among the 100 most inspiring and influential women in the world, recognizing her work in neurodiversity acceptance and caregiver inclusion. She is also the co-founder of Not That Different, a movement designed to build awareness and empathy around autism, neurodiversity and caregiver inclusion.She is currently pursuing a PhD on assisted living models for middle-income neurodivergent adults in India, with a focus on collaborative frameworks that combine policy, caregiving, and socioeconomic inclusion. Her expertise spans business journalism, gender narratives, screenplay and feature writing, content strategy, and documentary storytelling also. She has scripted acclaimed works for Netflix, DocuBay and Audible, including four seasons of The Regiment Diaries and a short film on 75 years of the National Defence Academy, a runner-up at the Dada Saheb Phalke Awards. She is widely regarded as one of India’s leading women defense-history writers. As a corporate trainer and speaker, Mugdha works with organizations on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, with a focus on disability, self-advocacy, and caregiver inclusion at the workplace. She has also led initiatives on women’s leadership, financial literacy, and gender equity through platforms such as WICCI, SheThePeople, MentorMyBoard, LWL, Lean In, and Leap Club.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned journalist and content strategist with a focus on media and social advocacy.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 23 yrs 5 mos