Sam Miller is a journalist and writer whose first book Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity was published by Penguin India in January 2009 - and soon became a best-seller. The book is also published by Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape

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Sam Miller was born in London in 1962. He studied history

History

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 at Cambridge University and politics

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 at the School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

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, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

, before joining BBC World Service

BBC World Service

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. In the early nineties he was the BBC

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's TV and radio correspondent in New Delhi

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 and on his return to the UK in 1993 was the presenter and editor off the BBC's current affairs programme South Asia Report. Later he became the head of the Urdu

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 service and subsequently Managing Editor, South Asia. He has also worked as a reporter in Pakistan

Pakistan

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, Afghanistan

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, Bangladesh

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, the Balkans

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 and Northern Ireland

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He was posted back to Delhi in 2002, and has remained there ever since. He now runs media training projects in the subcontinent for the BBC World Service Trust. He also works as a TV commentator, journalist and book reviewer for a number of Indian and international media organizations.

He contributed a chapter to The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta (Ebury Press 2004), along with Irvine Welsh, Bella Bathurst, Colm Toibin, Andrew O'Hagan and Monica Ali.

He is married to Shireen and they have two children, Zubin and Roxana.