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

Sam Miller was born in London in 1962. He studied history at Cambridge University and politics at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, before joining the BBC's World Service. In the early nineties he was the World Service TV and radio correspondent in Delhi 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 service and subsequently Managing Editor, South Asia. He has also worked as a reporter in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Balkans and Northern Ireland.

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.

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