In her decade long career with the newspaper, Amrita earned wide recognition for her reporting on diverse issues in Punjab.

[5] Well-known playwright Balram wrote a play based on emails exchanged between Amrita and her partner Jatinder Preet, also known as Jaypee.

She started her journalism career as a contributor to Ludhiana city supplement of The Indian Express in 1997 and later rose to become the Principal Correspondent.

She co-founded along with Jatinder Preet, a group Media Artists that conducted workshops for children, staged theatrical and musical performances and held lectures by eminent people.

The foundation staged shows of the play It’s Not An Affair based on email conversations between Amrita and Jaypee in Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Lehragaga and Patiala.