Amrita Shah is a former editor of Elle and Debonair, is an ex-contributing editor with the Indian Express, and has worked for the US-based Time-Life News Service. She has been a fellow of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, the Research Institute Advanced De Nantes and the Centre for Contemporary Studies at the Indian Institute of Science. She is a recipient of the Fulbright, the Homi Bhabha and the New India Foundation fellowships. She is the author of Vikram Sarabhai: A Life (2007), Ahmedabad: A City in the World (2015), Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India (2019) and The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire (2024).