Her books include Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom: For a Market Culture Beyond Greed and Fear, which won two Vodafone-Crossword Awards; Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi, which inspired the Hindi film “Swades” starring Shah Rukh Khan; and Long Haul: the Bombay Textile Workers Strike 1982-83. Rajni has also written several monographs including Trusteeship: Business and the Economics of Well-being; Civilizational Gandhi; An Economics for Well-Being; Let’s Make it Happen: A Backgrounder on New Economics; A Warning and an Opportunity: The Dispute over Swami Vivekananda’s Legacy.

From 2013 to 2016, Rajni was the Gandhi Peace Fellow at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, a Mumbai-based foreign policy think tank. She serves on the Boards of Child Rights and You (CRY), Citizens for Peace (CfP) and the Centre of Education and Documentation (Mumbai and Bengaluru). She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture.

Rajni has a B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from George Washington University and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Rajasthan.