 His piece "Emerging from the Shadows" for "The Statesman" in India was the country's first major newspaper article to discuss the life of Indian lesbians.He was involved in the organization of the first organized LGBT effort in the state of West Bengal and has spoken internationally on LGBT issues, Human rights violations across the world and the crisis in 21st century Islam.Sharma has been a featured speaker at more than 40 college campuses in the U.S., which include Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Harvard (1 April 2016 and 17 October 2016), Syracuse, Northwestern and the University of Chicago.