She was also one of four Indian journalists selected to attend and write about the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002.

Her columns ran in the Deccan Herald for 27 years until 2009 and she currently writes for The Wire,[7] Citizen Matters,[8] and Moneylife.

She has presented papers at international conferences on media, music and feminist studies, in the United States, Britain, Norway, Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Australia.

She has published around 4,000 articles for various news outlets and journals and authored 11 books, on consumer rights, music and feminist issues.

Her writings have been translated into Russian, German, Swedish, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu.