Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose (born 12 January 1947) is a journalist and author. He writes a weekly "Big Sports Interview" for the London Evening Standard, and also writes and broadcasts on sport and social and historical issues for several outlets including the BBC, the Financial Times and Sunday Times. He was the BBC Sports Editor until 4 August 2009.

He has written for most of the major UK newspapers and several business publications, presented programmes for radio and television, and written 26 books including the first history of Bollywood.

Bose is of Indian origin. Born in Calcutta, he grew up in Bombay, now Mumbai. He went from India to the UK in 1969 to study engineering at Loughborough University. He took up accountancy and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1974.

He started his journalistic career at LBC Radio, before writing for the Sunday Times. He gave up accountancy in 1978 to become a full-time journalist concentrating on business journalism but also writing about sport. He moved from business journalism to investigative sports reporting in the 1990s, editing the Inside Track column for the Sunday Times. He moved to the Daily Telegraph in 1995, where he started the paper's Inside Sports column.

He left the Telegraph to become the BBC's Sports Editor in October 2006.

Bose has also presented on radio and television, including BBC Radio 4's Financial World Tonight, the South Asia Report on the BBC World Service and What the Papers Say for Channel 4.

His output as the BBC's head sports writer included a regular blog on the Corporation's website.

On 4 August 2009 Mihir Bose resigned from the BBC for personal reasons. It was reported that Bose was unhappy with the forthcoming move of the BBC Sports Department from London to Manchester, which would have required him to relocate. He was replaced as Sports Editor by David Bond.

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