With four decades of celebrity writing behind her, she commenced her career as a journalist after an English Honours and a Master’s in English literature from Indraprastha College, Delhi University, and studied journalism at Dateline Delhi, in 1981. She has been an accredited Media Critic and held positions as the Chief Correspondent of Celebrity magazine, Chief of Delhi Bureau of five magazines, i.e. Society, Savvy, Showtime, Parade, Island, and Senior Contributor with Newstrack (video newsmagazine of India Today). As a broadcaster, she has had a long association with All India Radio and invited by Doordarshan to produce and anchor current affairs programmes on Electoral Reforms and Cult of Violence.

She was invited to World Youth Festival in Moscow with a subsequent visit to Tashkent, in 1985, as part of the media delegation. She was also extended an invite by the British Tourist Authority and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, in 1988, to visit the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to write on ‘The Indo-Oxbridge Connection’, besides penning the success stories of leading Indians in London and Bradford.

With an innate streak for travel, she accomplished foreign travel assignments for Destination Traveller, traversing various destinations –  Bangkok, Phuket, Paris, Singapore, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, etc. Travel remained a constant as she launched and edited the in-flight magazine of Damania Airways, Touch.

A relentless wanderlust as a travel writer propelled her to make more voyages of discovery in recent years – Athens, Mykonos & Santorini islands in Greece; Istanbul & Cappadocia in Turkey; Da Nang, Hanoi, & Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam; Siem Reap & Angkor Wat in Cambodia; Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington, Niagara Falls & New York in United States, Tokyo, Hakone, Nagoya, Osaka & Hiroshima in Japan; Seoul in Korea; Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich, Lucerne, Jungfraujoch, Interlaken, Mt Titlis, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Berlin, Dresden, Cologne, Munich, Prague, Innsbruck, Vienna, Salzburg, Slovakia, Budapest, Krakow & Auschwitz concentration camps in West & East Europe; the Balkans, i.e. Croatia and Slovenia.