Journalist & Broadcaster
Mihir Bose is an award-winning journalist and author of 53 books. His books range from histories, biographies, issues of race and inclusion to sports. His History of Indian Cricket was the first book on Indian cricket to win the prestigious English Cricket Society Literary Award. He has written the only narrative history of Bollywood. His book, Silver, the greatest spy of the second world war, is being made into a Bollywood film.
His Dreaming The Impossible: the Battle to Create a Non-racial Sports World was shortlisted for the 2023 Sunday Times Sports Book Awards. He had just written his memoir, Thank you, Mr Crombie, Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to Britain, which describes his upbringing in India and the problems of race, culture and legacy of empire in Britain.
Mihir was the BBC’s first Sports Editor, the first non-white to be a BBC editor where he moved after twenty years at the Sunday Times and twelve at the Daily Telegraph. He has an honorary doctorate from Loughborough University for his outstanding contribution to journalism and the promotion of equality.