[1][5] The same year, she was conferred with the Chameli Devi Jain Award, the highest honor for women journalists in India: her meticulous nature of coverage and cross-checking of involved facts were admired in particular.
[1] She has been recognised as one of the most credible Indian journalists in India because of her painstaking in-depth ground, intersectional reporting that steers clear of binary, opinionated, formulaic mainstream coverage of news.
[9] She wrote the piece, 'Outcast[e]/Outlawed: The Bandit Queen (1996)' for the book ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety published by Palgrave Macmillan.
'[14] Priavi Joshi wrote in the Scroll.in, 'The book is a testament to what fine journalism promises to be – rich, complex, empowering the forgotten, and capable of capturing the zeitgeist.
'[15] Ruben Banerjee wrote in The Federal that 'The story that Dixit ends up writing is a paean to the grit and gumption of the untold millions adrift on despair in urban India, narrated without condescension.
Prathyush Parasuraman wrote in the Frontline, 'To read the journalist Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives Of Syeda X then is to see life invade storytelling in one of the most thrilling Marxist texts.
It is The Great Indian Marxist Book, a journalist’s account of one woman traced from the early 1990s to the present day, from the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 to the Delhi riots of 2020, threading through 50 different types of jobs...Dixit produces not a protagonist but instead a historical subject.
'[18] Soutik Biswas writes in the BBC: "Ms Dixit’s book shines a spotlight on the invisible lives of India’s neglected female home-based workers.