Sarakshi is the Director of Audience Development and Head of Social Media at The Hill. She got her start writing about sports in India before heading to London, where she was mostly in charge of booking Ukrainian hotels for correspondents during the 2014 invasion as an intern at The Times of London. After a couple of years of political reporting in India at Network 18, she moved to Esquire magazine in Dubai. Sarakshi moved to the U.S. in 2020 and started at The Hill after getting a second masters at University of Delaware. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Mumbai and a master's degree in International Journalism from City, University of London.