Mihir S Sharma

Mihir S. Sharma was born in Delhi, and grew up in Chandigarh, Mumbai, Jamshedpur, and Kolkata. He was trained as an economist and a political scientist before dropping ignobly out of academia. Like many others unable to concentrate on a single topic long enough to write a dissertation, he drifted from one thing to another till he found the closest thing to paid unemployment in a capitalist society: journalism. He now writes and edits opinion for the Business Standard newspaper in New Delhi.