1. Mihir Bose was born on 12 January 1947 and is a British Indian journalist and author.
20 Facts About Mihir Bose
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Mihir Bose writes a weekly "Big Sports Interview" for the London Evening Standard, and writes and broadcasts on sport and social and historical issues for several outlets including the BBC, the Financial Times and Sunday Times.
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Mihir Bose was the BBC Sports Editor until 4 August 2009.
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Mihir Bose has written for most of the major UK newspapers and several business publications, presented programmes for radio and television, and written 26 books including a history of Bollywood and various books on football and cricket.
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Mihir Bose went from India to the UK in 1969 to study engineering at Loughborough University.
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Mihir Bose took up accountancy and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1974.
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Mihir Bose started his journalistic career at LBC Radio, before writing for the Sunday Times.
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Mihir Bose gave up accountancy in 1978 to become a full-time journalist concentrating on business journalism but writing about sport.
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Mihir Bose moved from business journalism to investigative sports reporting in the 1990s, editing the Inside Track column for the Sunday Times.
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Mihir Bose moved to the Daily Telegraph in 1995, where he started the paper's Inside Sports column.
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Mihir Bose left the Telegraph to become the BBC's sports editor in October 2006.
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On 4 August 2009, Mihir Bose resigned from the BBC for personal reasons.
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Mihir Bose was replaced as Sports Editor by David Bond.
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Mihir Bose now writes a blog for the football-related website insideworldfootball.
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Mihir Bose contributes a weekly "Big Interview" to the London Evening Standard.
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Mihir Bose has written 27 books and 15 collaborations on a range of subjects.
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Mihir Bose's books include False Messiah: The Life and Times of Terry Venables, A History of Indian Cricket, Manchester Disunited and The Spirit of the Game.
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Mihir Bose has written a book in the form of a comprehensive history of India's film industry called Bollywood: A History.
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Mihir Bose wrote The Aga Khans, a work that unflatteringly detailed the lives of the first three Aga Khans.
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Mihir Bose told Paddy O'Connell on Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme that he went to school with the Indian cricketer Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar.