Vijay Sharma

Vijay Sharma is an author, poet and painter. He writes and paints from Goa and Pune, India, under SHIVAM – An Art Studio.

Born in Banga, Punjab, he was working at a lathe beside Banga Railway Station at the age of nine, and paid for his engineering studies by repairing tractor diesel engines.

He went on to spend 37 years in manufacturing: building engine and gear plants, leading a tractor launch at Mahindra & Mahindra, serving on the core team of its Deming Award journey, and working as CEO and Managing Director before founding his own automotive parts company in Pune in 2009. He holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab University, Chandigarh, and an MBA from La Trobe University, Australia.

For 51 years he has ended each day by writing down its best moment — a person, a kindness, something in nature — first in Punjabi, then Hindi, then English. His books grow from those notebooks.

His published books are Forget Your Age: Remember Your Roots and The Opening, Books One and Two of The Reaching, and I Am God’s Favourite Child, forty stories from the roads of India.

His poetry collection You Came — seventy-seven poems, each with a story, a reflection and an oil painting by the author — arrives on 31 December 2026.

All his work returns to four values: Love, Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude.

He is currently completing The Reaching, a tetralogy spanning non-fiction, literary fiction and contemplative prose.