Amrita Shah

Amrita Shah is an Indian journalist, scholar and writer. She was the first female editor of the men's magazine ''Debonair'', and a founding editor of the Indian edition of ''Elle''. Her work includes a pioneering series of articles on Mumbai's organised crime, a biography of the father of the Indian space program Vikram Sarabhai, a study of India's emerging politics through an urban framing in a contemporary history of the city of Ahmedabad, and a book on the impact of television in India.

Her major works have been supported by several awarded fellowships, including from the New India Foundation, Fulbright, the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council, and the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.

Shah has been Contributing Editor with the ''Indian Express'', a correspondent for Mumbai's ''Imprint'' Magazine and a Stringer for ''Time-Life''. Provided by Wikipedia