His range of writings and news reports cover politics, business and arts, as well as special features on society and culture. He is a former news editor of The Sun and former features writer of the New Sunday Times. A scholarship graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Himanshu pioneered Cape Poetics, a literature and theatre concern, and has directed and acted in several drama productions. He grew up in the ‘Little India’ enclave of George Town where his grandfather conducted trading business since the 1920s. Himanshu wrote an essay for Portraits of Penang: Little India (2013) and was the writer/researcher for Little India of George Town (2015).