Karishma Mehta (born 5 March 1992) is the founder of the photo blog page Humans of Bombay which launched in January 2014, and author of the related book Humans of Bombay.

[1] Mehta was born and raised in Mumbai and attended the Bombay Scottish School, Mahim.

In January 2014, Mehta began the Humans of Bombay Facebook page, copied from American Photographer Brandon Stanton's - the Humans of New York (HoNY) Facebook page.

[3] To find subjects for the website, Mehta approached people on the street[3][4][8] and interviewed them.

[8] In 2016, Mehta compiled posts, into a self-published book, Humans of Bombay,[4] in her attempt to directly raise money to fund the website.