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Chitra Padmanabhan as a journalist and literary critic based in Dehli. She is a political columnist for the The Indian Express, writing on Indian politicians such as Mayawati. and a commentator for the Economic and Political Weekly. She also writes for India Today and other publications. She is known as a critic of Indian cinema.

Padmanabhan is concerned with the state of India today, as in her article "Auda Muskaan" about the state of Muslims in border area of Juhapura-Vejalpur in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

She is also a literary critic, writing a piece about Vijaydan Detha for the literary e-journal Muse India. She conducted an interview with Sunetra Gupta just after the release of Gupta's newest novel So Good in Black.