She works on issues of press freedom, journalists’ rights, gender and conflict. She has served as associate editor with Himal Southasian, the region’s only political review magazine, published from Kathmandu, and headed the Hri Institute for Southasian Research and Exchange, a unit under the Himal banner, conducting cross-border research in a region fraught with political divisions. Laxmi works with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), managing South Asia programs on issues of press freedom and journalists’ rights. She edits the IFJ’s annual South Asia Press Freedom Report, and conducts research and training on gender and the media. Till 2002, Laxmi was an editor with the Women's Feature Service, an international news-feature agency specializing in development issues from a gender perspective. She has written extensively in the mainstream Indian media on gender issues.