Rohini writes about politics, business, the environment and human rights. For more than 20 years, she has written for publications including Time, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Economic Times and The Hindu. She joined The Straits Times in 2019. She has won several journalism awards, including the 2020 Fetisov award for investigative reporting, and the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person in 2019. She is the author of the award-winning The Seasons Of Trouble (2014), a non-fiction book on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.