Brij Sharma

Brij Sharma was born in 1949 in Laksar, Uttarakhand, where his father was a railway guard. After a desultory education in Dehra Dun in schools for the underprivileged, he joined the Times of India as a trainee journalist in 1973 as a batchmate of Vinod Bhardwaj. Six years later, soon after his return from a fellowship in West Germany, he left for the Gulf to waste 11 years with Khaleej Times in Dubai. He has also translated Vinod Bhardwaj's first two parts of this trilogy into English, co- edited with him two F N Souza exhibition catalogues, and edited the autobiography of Jack Gibson, the last English principal of Mayo College in Ajmer, which was published from the US. He has also translated into English Indian artist Ram Kumar's Europe Ke Sketch published in his youth which is forthcoming from Pundole Gallery in Mumbai.

He was Editor of Indian Express in Gujarat in the early 1990s and subsequently worked as a journalist in Bahrain until his return to India in 2019. He now lives between Goa and Dehradun.