That the BBC's sports editor Mihir Bose is also a chartered accountant is quite well known. His financial literacy has illuminated many exclusives for The Sunday Times and then the Daily Telegraph before the BBC. But it was engineering that was supposed to be his chosen career when he arrived in the UK to study at Loughborough University in 1969.rn'In Nehru's India, the drive was towards an industrial post-colonial economy and the view was that young men should qualify as engineers to build it. My father knewa number of writers and journalists and he said there was no money in it. So after doing a maths degree, I was off to England to become an engineer.'rnHe admits he wasn't really cut out for engineering: 'I was good with the numbers but I had no real spatial sense.' He then decided to train to be an accountant as an articled clerk with a small firm, Myrus Smith & Walker,rnbefore joining Arthur Young in London.
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