Sabina Sehgal Saikia has been with The Times of India for the past 25 years. She has worked for the newspaper in various capacities and departments. She was part of the launch team of both Saturday Times and The Sunday Times of India. As a special correspondent with the Political News Bureau, she covered very sensitive areas such as CBI, The Northeast, Enforcement Directorate and Intelligence

Foraying into features , she took over as the Editor of Delhi Times and gave it a youthful orientation. Subsequently she became the National Editor, Sunday Times and is currently Consultant Editor with The Times of India. For the past 15 years, she has been reviewing restaurants and their delicacies for The Times of India. Her immensely popular weekly column - Main Course - which appears in Delhi Times, has accurately charted the checkered business of eating out in the capital. The hallmark of her critiques has been the objectivity, integrity and honesty with which she evaluates a restaurant. She visits the restaurant anonymously, picks up the tab at the end of the meal and writes, without hesitation, about the entire dining experience. She is the author of The Times Good Eating Guide, a comprehensive evaluation of restaurants in the city. Sabina Sehgal Saikia has made her mark in whatever she has taken up as a journalist and a writer.