Karishma Mehta
Karishma Mehta 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.
Biography
Mehta was born and raised in Mumbai and attended the Bombay Scottish School, Mahim. She attended a boarding school in Bangalore for two years and then college in the UK for three years. In 2013, Mehta was an economics and business student in Nottingham, UK, and holds a degree in business and economics from the University of Nottingham. She is a freelance writer for various publications, including National Geographic. She is a TEDx speaker. Mehta is fluent in Hindi, English and Marathi. She is the niece of Zarna Garg.Works
In January 2014, Mehta began the Humans of Bombay Facebook page, copied from American Photographer Brandon Stanton's - the Humans of New York Facebook page. After discovering the HoNY page in 2013, she tried to find a similar page for Mumbai, and after not finding one, she created a logo and made a Facebook page herself. To find subjects for the website, Mehta approached people on the street and interviewed them. By 2018, her team had expanded to six members based in Mumbai, with freelance members in other parts of India.In 2016, Mehta compiled posts, into a self-published book, Humans of Bombay, in her attempt to directly raise money to fund the website.
As of 2021, the site has over a million followers on Facebook and over two million on Instagram. In 2022, she launched an interview-based YouTube web series called "How The Hell Did I Do It?" which features businesspeople, celebrities, and other accomplished people answering interview questions to provide insight on how they accomplished certain things in their lives.