The SSC, featured in The Hindu,[6] is the first-of-its kind in India for university students at MAHE, aimed at creating a safe space with confidentiality and free psychotherapeutic supports.

[30] Prabhu's first novel, Maya, published in 2003, was set in the Konkan region and drew from local and family lore as they emerged in the consciousness of a young, questioning girl.

Writer, editor, and columnist, Krupa Ge writes in First Post: “Gayathri’s sparkling prose is light, as it meanders artfully conveying memories heavy, laden with emotions”.

[34] Poet Arundhathi Subramaniam praises If I Had to Tell it Again “for its mix of candour, poise and urgency in a fiercely loving portrait of a parent” while choosing it among her best reads of the year.

[35] Professor of English at Ashoka University, Madhavi Menon describes the memoir as a “daring and brave challenge to our preconceptions both about writing and about depression” in her review titled “Real Fathers in All Their Frailty”, featured in The Wire.

[52] In 2020, scholars Gayathri Prabhu and Nikhil Govind co-published Shadow Craft: Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema through Bloomsbury India.

[53][54] Bloomsbury Publishing describes the work as an "ardent and immersive study of cinematic craftings that emblematize the oeuvres of Kamal Amrohi, Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and Abrar Alvi.

Films such as Aag (1948), Mahal (1949), Seema (1955), Pyaasa (1957), Sujata (1959), Kagaz Ke Phool (1959), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Bandini (1963) remain formative to the visual psyche of generations of South Asian viewers.

[citation needed] Less than a year after the publication of 'If I Had to Tell it Again', the memoir was longlisted under the category of Best Non Fiction (English) in the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival in September 2018.

[57] For her work in the literary field, Prabhu won the R.K. Narayan Award for Best Writer in English in 2019 from the Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI) at the inauguration of the 2019 Chennai Book Fair, handed by the CM of Tamil Nadu.