She is the only Indian journalist to have written a weekly consumer column continuously for over three decades.
Girimaji began her career in Journalism in 1976 with City Tab, a community paper published from Bangalore.
After City Tab, she worked for Deccan Herald in Bangalore before moving on to The Indian Express out of Delhi in 1982.
In 1983, she started her consumer column and its syndication which was published in variety of papers: The Times of India, Divya Bhaskar out of Gujarat, Amar Ujala, Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, and Samyukta Karnataka and Vijaya Karnataka, both from Kannada.
She played an important role in the Consumer Protection Act of 1986 and in the numerous amendments to the law.