Karishma Mehta also works as a photographer. In addition to writing the companion book, Humans of Bombay, she is the creator and manager of the website, which debuted in January 2014. She presents at TEDx and writes for a living. She spent two years in a boarding school in Bangalore and three years at a college in the United Kingdom. Mehta graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2013 with a degree in Business and Economics. She studied economics and business at Nottingham, UK.