She is presently the Director and Chief Editor of the Viveka Foundation, a Centre for Alternative Perspectives, basically to focus on publishing for individual and social transformation. She has also been closely associated with SPICMACAY (Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth) for several years. In 1992, she started The Eye magazine, an India-oriented magazine of ideas and was its editor till 1998.
Translations have always interested her. She has translated from Malayalam into English and vice-versa. She has also edited for Penguin India and The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. Rukmini now lives in Delhi.