She has been awarded the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, Overseas Press Club Award, and Daniel Pearl Award. Kripalani was an Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served as deputy press secretary to Steve Forbes during his first run as Republican candidate for U.S. president and as press secretary for the Lok Sabha campaign for independent candidate Meera Sanyal in Mumbai. Kripalani. She holds two bachelor’s degrees from Bombay University in law and in English and history, and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University in New York. She is a member of the Asian advisory board of the International Centre for Journalists and the Overseas Press Club.