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Shah is that rare writer who combines the topical energy of journalism with the reflective depth and breadth of scholarship. Her television book is, by the same token, that exceedingly rare approach to the subject that is neither superficial nor ponderous. This is a text that navigates seamlessly between reportage, social analysis, and personal memoir. It brings policy debates alive and mines everyday experience for its structural significance. -- William Mazzarella, * Neukom Family Professor and Department Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago * Hype, Hypocrisy & Television in Urban India was a book way ahead of its time. Too many likely users who would benefit from it are deprived simply because it is such an old publication now. Nobody has done a comparable book on politics and sociology of Indian television. It would find an audience among journalists and television viewers bewildered by the fast evolving scenario. Media is now a huge industry and punches above its weight in terms of impact on our minds. There are too few serious books on the subject, barring the odd personalised memoir. -- Shekhar Gupta, * Founder and Editor-in-Chief, ThePrint *

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Amrita Shah is the author of the award-winning book Ahmedabad: A City in the World (2015) and a biography Vikram Sarabhai: A Life (2007).  She has been a journalist and a writer for several decades. She has worked for Time magazine, edited features magazines Debonair and Elle and has been a contributing editor with The Indian Express. Ms Shah has received fellowships from the New India Foundation, the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council and the Fulbright Program. She is an alumna of the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University and has been Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

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