Sonia Faleiro has reported for India Today and Tehelka magazines, and is currently a contributing editor to Vogue (India). Her reportage includes numerous reports on India's sex-workers, on Bombay's bar dancers, a six-part series on India's domestic workers, and extensive writings on the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha.

She is the recipient of a CNN Young Journalist Award in 2006. As well as awards from the Ratan Tata Trust, the Oxford Cambridge Society of India, and the British Council's D'Souza Trust.