Amrita Shah

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Amrita Shah
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OccupationJournalist, writer

Amrita Shah is an Indian journalist, scholar, and former editor of Debonair and 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[edit]

Amrita Shah received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Homi Bhabha Fellowship Council, New India Foundation, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation, and Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study.[1]

In the early 1990s Shah became the first female editor of the men's magazine Debonair.[2][3] She was also editor of Elle.[1]

Works[edit]

Shah's books include Vikram Sarabhai: A Life (2007).[4] 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".[5][6]

Her book Ahmedabad: A City in the World was published in 2015.[7] In it she gives an account of Ahmedabad's Muslim ghettos, and follows Meeraj, a Muslim who lost his home in the Gulbarg Society massacre.[8][9][10][11]

Shah's research on television in India led to her book Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India (2019).[12][13][14][15]

Selected publications[edit]

Articles[edit]

  • "City of gold". The Illustrated Weekly Of India. January 1988. (Interview with Varadarajan Mudaliar)

Books[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chandran, Ramjee (2 February 2022). "Shakespeare, Joan Didion And Amrita Shah Walk Into A Bar. And, "No Loos In Texas". - The Literary City". Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Biblio: A Review of Books. Asia-Pacific Communication Associates. 1998. p. 6.
  3. ↑ Mazzarella, William (2003). "3. Citizens have sex, consumers make love; karma Sutra I". Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3145-2.
  4. ↑ Anderson, Robert S. (2010). "Notes". Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-01975-8.
  5. ↑ "Engineering India's Space Dreams". www.tata.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "New India Foundation". New India Foundation. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Bose, Mihir (30 July 2015). "Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah, book review: Riveting". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  8. ↑ Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis (2022). "13. Pratikriya, guilt and reactionary violence". In Hansen, Thomas Blom; Roy, Srirupa (eds.). Saffron Republic: Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India. Cambridge University Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-009-10048-9.
  9. ↑ Ahmed, Heba (2017). "9. The Gulbarg memorial and the problem of memory". In Mahn, Churnjeet; Murphy, Anne (eds.). Partition and the Practice of Memory. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 198. ISBN 978-3-319-64516-2.
  10. ↑ Barua, Rukmini (2022). "7. Security and tenancy at the margins of the city". In the Shadow of the Mill: Workers' Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s. Cambridge University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-108-83811-5.
  11. ↑ Mathur, Navdeep; Mittal, Harsh (2020). "11. Neoliberal governing as production of fantasy: contemporary transformations in Ahmedabad's landscapes". In Mishra, Deepak K.; Nayak, Pradeep (eds.). Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India. Springer. ISBN 978-981-15-3511-6.
  12. ↑ Lad, Mita (September 2021). "Book Review: Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India". Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies. 16 (3): 328–330. doi:10.1177/17496020211015463a.
  13. ↑ Najib, Rihan (6 September 2019). "Interview with Amrita Shah, author of 'Telly-Guillotined'". BusinessLine. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  14. ↑ Malhotra, Sheena; Crabtree, Robin D. (2002). "3. Gender (Inter)Nation(alization) and culture: Implications for the privatisation of television in India". In Collier, Mary Jane (ed.). Transforming Communication About Culture. SAGE. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-7619-2488-3.
  15. ↑ Sundaram, Ravi (2010). "3. The pirate kingdom". Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-134-13051-1.

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