In 2010, he quit the BBC to start CGNet Swara (Voice of Chhattisgarh) to give “voice to the voiceless” and all those “left out of India’s growth story.” CGNet Swara is a pioneering voice-blogging initiative that enables callers, or citizen journalists, to record messages—news, views, opinion and, sometimes, creative compositions—which are fact-checked by journalists, transcribed, translated, and published in the portal. It has served to link the local community with the mainstream media and the government, bringing about positive changes in the lives of the people living in some of the least developed parts of India. In 2014, Choudhary bagged the Google Digital Activism Award, beating out Edward Snowden. He is also the author of Let’s Call Him Vasu: With the Maoists in Chhattisgarh.