[8] Amita Malik was the first reporter to interview Indira Gandhi when she unexpectedly became Prime Minister of India[9] after Lal Bahadur Shastri's death in Tashkent.

Malik was awarded the first fellowship of the Canadian Women's Press Club which arranged accommodation for her with their members for 10 months in 1960.

[10] Among others, she interviewed Satyajit Ray, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, Marlon Brando, David Niven, and Alfred Hitchcock.

[citation needed] In 1989 she launched a campaign against the misuse of India's state-owned media which had been converted into the private organ of the Indian National Congress party to promote Rajiv Gandhi.

[14] Amita's syndicated column "Sight and Sound" has been published in virtually every leading Indian newspaper at various times.