[4] In her early career, she was closely involved in several public initiatives to improve the lives of sanitation workers and indigenous fishing communities in Mumbai.
[2][7] In 1987, Shukla established the Vacha Charitable Trust in Mumbai - a private organisation that founded a library to support feminist research, as well as to provide resources to women students (such as international publications that were not easily accessible in India at the time).
[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Shukla organised a team of volunteers with Vacha, to provide free food, and personal supplies including menstrual hygiene products, to families in need, in Mumbai.
[9] Shukla published a weekly column with a Gujarati newspaper from 1980 until her death in 2021, in which she wrote about a wide variety of issues, ranging from food, literature, and politics, to feminist ideas and women's rights.
[11][12] She has also written about pedagogy and education from the perspective of feminism, about teachers' unions, and about the depiction of women and families in folk literature in India.
[13] In 2021, she was recognized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation as a 'gender icon', and an illustrated book about her life, written by Jyoti Punwani, was released in her honor.