As a journalist, Sakuntala worked for 7 years with "The Times of India" group at Mumbai. She reported on the U.N. Global Conference on Women in China, for the Deccan Herald in 1995, and on the 23rd UN General Assembly session at New York in 2000. 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 till 2009 and she currently writes for "The Wire", "Citizen Matters", and "Moneylife".