[1] She subsequently became a Stringer for the American Time magazine, and authored a series of articles on Mumbai's organised crime in the Illustrated Weekly of India and other publications.
[6] Stephen H. Hess noted that journalists like Shah objected to Americentrism in publishing and aspired to writing about a wider range of topics, with an aim to reach larger audiences.
[9] In 2019, she was listed as resident fellow at The Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, continuing her work on a project titled "A Personal Journey Into History", in which she roams through Britain's Indian Ocean Empire following the trail of her great grandfather Mohanlal who travelled to Natal at the turn of the twentieth century.
[10] It was a survey of the socio-cultural and political landscape of post liberalisation India and contained significant findings including on the expansion of the media,[11] on the dramatic transformation in the lives of Indian women,[12][13] and on the future of journalism.
[14] While researching the book she became interested in Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the Indian Space Program and a key proponent of television in India, and his city of birth, Ahmedabad.
[16][17] In it she wrote that Sarabhai "dreamed of using space technology for applications in agriculture, forestry, oceanography, geology, mineral prospecting and cartography, with a strict focus on peaceful ends".
[21] Shah details the emergence of a bleak Muslim ghetto, called Bombay Hotel,[22] following Miraj, who lost his home in the attack on the Gulbarg Society.