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'''Amrita Shah''' is an Indian journalist, scholar, and former editor of ''[[Debonair (magazine)|Debonair]]'' and ''[[Elle (India)|Elle]]''. She is a noted biographer of Indian space researcher [[Vikram Sarabhai]], writer on the city of [[Ahmedabad]], and author of a work on television in India.

==Career==
Amrita Shah received fellowships from the [[Fulbright Program]], [[Homi Bhabha Fellowship|Homi Bhabha Fellowship Council]], [[New India Foundation Fellowship|New India Foundation]], Institute for Public Knowledge at [[New York University]], [[Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation]], and [[Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study]].<ref name=Chandran2022>{{cite web |last1=Chandran |first1=Ramjee |title=Shakespeare, Joan Didion And Amrita Shah Walk Into A Bar. And, "No Loos In Texas". - The Literary City |url=https://www.theliterarycity.com/1900209/9977733 |access-date=22 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922045727/https://www.theliterarycity.com/1900209/9977733 |archive-date=22 September 2023 |language=en |date=2 February 2022}}</ref>

In the early 1990s Shah became the first female editor of the men's magazine ''[[Debonair (magazine)|Debonair]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tC9VAAAAYAAJ |title=Biblio: A Review of Books |date=1998 |publisher=Asia-Pacific Communication Associates |pages=6 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Mazzarella2003>{{cite book |last1=Mazzarella |first1=William |title=Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India |date=2003 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-3145-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJ4nl-vewBkC&pg=PA63 |language=en |chapter=3. Citizens have sex, consumers make love; karma Sutra I}}</ref> She was also editor of ''[[Elle (India)|Elle]]''.<ref name=Chandran2022/>

==Works==
Shah's books include ''Vikram Sarabhai: A Life'' (2007).<ref name=Anderson2010>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Robert S. |title=Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India |date=2010 |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |isbn=978-0-226-01975-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3BcKqXOeSbAC&pg=PA595 |language=en |chapter=Notes}}</ref> In this biography of [[Vikram Sarabhai]], she said that he "dreamed of using space technology for applications in agriculture, forestry, oceanography, geology, mineral prospecting and cartography, with a strict focus on peaceful ends".<ref name=Tata>{{cite web |title=Engineering India's Space Dreams |url=https://www.tata.com/newsroom/heritage/engineering-indias-space-dreams-iisc-to-isro |website=www.tata.com |access-date=21 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921100515/https://www.tata.com/newsroom/heritage/engineering-indias-space-dreams-iisc-to-isro|archive-date=21 September 2023|language=en}}</ref><ref name=NIF>{{cite web |title=New India Foundation |url=https://www.newindiafoundation.org/fellows |website=New India Foundation |access-date=21 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921100405/https://www.newindiafoundation.org/fellows|archive-date=21 September 2023}}</ref>

Her book ''Ahmedabad: A City in the World'' was published in 2015.<ref name=Bose>{{cite news |last=Bose|first=Mihir|title=Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah, book review: Riveting |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/ahmedabad-a-city-in-the-world-by-amrita-shah-book-review-riveting-account-of-a-key-city-10426856.html |access-date=21 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921094524/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/ahmedabad-a-city-in-the-world-by-amrita-shah-book-review-riveting-account-of-a-key-city-10426856.html|archive-date=21 September 2023 |work=The Independent |date=30 July 2015 |language=en}}</ref> In it she gives an account of Ahmedabad's Muslim [[ghetto]]s, and follows Meeraj, a Muslim who lost his home in the [[Gulbarg Society massacre]].<ref name=Hansen2022>{{cite book |last1=Ghassem-Fachandi |first1=Parvis |editor1-last=Hansen |editor1-first=Thomas Blom |editor2-last=Roy |editor2-first=Srirupa |title=Saffron Republic: Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India |date=2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-10048-9 |page=290 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yj2CEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA290 |language=en |chapter=13. Pratikriya, guilt and reactionary violence}}</ref><ref name=Mahn2017>{{cite book |last1=Ahmed |first1=Heba |editor1-last=Mahn |editor1-first=Churnjeet |editor2-last=Murphy |editor2-first=Anne |title=Partition and the Practice of Memory |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-319-64516-2 |page=198 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hdFBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 |language=en |chapter=9. The Gulbarg memorial and the problem of memory}}</ref><ref name=Barua2022>{{cite book |last1=Barua |first1=Rukmini |title=In the Shadow of the Mill: Workers' Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s |date=2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-83811-5 |page=263 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-Z3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA263 |language=en |chapter=7. Security and tenancy at the margins of the city}}</ref><ref name=Mishra2020>{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=Navdeep |last2=Mittal |first2=Harsh |editor1-last=Mishra |editor1-first=Deepak K. |editor2-last=Nayak |editor2-first=Pradeep |title=Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India |date=2020 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-15-3511-6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQDoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA227 |language=en |chapter=11. Neoliberal governing as production of fantasy: contemporary transformations in Ahmedabad's landscapes}}</ref>

Shah's research on television in India led to her book ''Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India'' (2019).<ref name=Lad2021>{{cite journal |last1=Lad |first1=Mita |title=Book Review: Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India |journal=Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies |date=September 2021 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=328–330 |doi=10.1177/17496020211015463a |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17496020211015463a?journalCode=csta|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Najib>{{cite news |last1=Najib |first1=Rihan |title=Interview with Amrita Shah, author of 'Telly-Guillotined' |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/read/interview-with-amrita-shah-author-of-telly-guillotined/article29351111.ece |access-date=21 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921095925/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/read/interview-with-amrita-shah-author-of-telly-guillotined/article29351111.ece |archive-date=21 September 2023|work=BusinessLine |date=6 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Collier2002>{{cite book |last1=Malhotra |first1=Sheena |last2=Crabtree |first2=Robin D. |editor1-last=Collier |editor1-first=Mary Jane |title=Transforming Communication About Culture |date=2002 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-0-7619-2488-3 |page=70 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Es5DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 |language=en |chapter=3. Gender (Inter)Nation(alization) and culture: Implications for the privatisation of television in India}}</ref><ref name=Sundaram2010>{{cite book |last1=Sundaram |first1=Ravi |title=Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon, Oxon |isbn=978-1-134-13051-1 |page=115 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5d9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT115 |language=en |chapter=3. The pirate kingdom}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
===Articles===
*{{cite journal |title=City of gold |journal=The Illustrated Weekly Of India |date=January 1988 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.110083/page/n13/mode/2up?q=amrita}} (Interview with [[Varadarajan Mudaliar]])

===Books===
*{{cite book |title=Vikram Sarabhai, a Life |date=2007 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-670-99951-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qs3aAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
*{{cite book |title=Ahmedabad: A City in the World |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |isbn=978-93-84898-01-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQ45rgEACAAJ |language=en}}
*{{cite book |title=Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India |date=2019 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-93-5328-605-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iwk1xQEACAAJ |language=en}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web |title=Shah, Amrita |url=https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/author/amrita-shah |website=SAGE Publications Ltd |access-date=21 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921095159/https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/author/amrita-shah|archive-date=21 September 2023 |language=en |date=7 July 2023}}

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