Journalist and TV presenter Mayank Shekhar was born in Bihar, grew up in Delhi, and calls Bombay his home. He has been writing on India and pop culture for much over a decade, starting with the tabloid Mid-Day, then Mumbai Mirror, the paper he helped set up under The Times Group, and thereafter Hindustan Times, where he served as the national cultural editor. In 2006, he was awarded the first Ramnath Goenka Award for films and television journalism.