Choudhury started her career with the newspaper The Indian Express in 1999 and became the Deputy Chief Reporter responsible for their city section Newsline.
Choudhury, along with her colleague Naghma Sahar trundled the bylanes and boondocks of India in search of the elusive Indian voter, and an insight into his mind.
They went to villages without electricity in UP, to tribal settlements in Jharkhand, to Baripada in Odisha and Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu.
They carried out a daily show called the Election Express, that spoke one on one with the locals and tried to understand the issues that determined their lives.
[10] In 2015, she received the Red Ink Award for her story on how disabled children were being adopted by Indian families for the very first time.