Anita also worked for "India Today" and then was a correspondent for "Time" magazine for eight years. Post 1993-bombings in Bombay (now Mumbai), she also interviewed Bal Thackeray for "Time"; he was the then the chief of Shiv Sena which was the leading opposition party in Maharashtra. In 1996, she joined CNN, her first experience as a television journalist. She worked from the Atlanta and the Bangkok bureaus for a short while to get experience. She then covered news on the Taliban's takeover of Kabul for which she was presented with the George Polk Award.