Mario Joao Carlos do Rosario de Brito Miranda (his full name) comes from Loutolim, Goa. Artist, Cartoonist and illustrator, he started his career with Times of India group of publications, and his cartoons appear regurlarly in such papers as the 'Economic Times' and the 'Afternoon Dispatch and Courier'.

Educated in Portuguese and English, he graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay. He has had no formal education in art. He has illustrated various books like Indide Goa by Manohar Malgonkar and A Family in Goa by Dom Moraes, and has published some of his own, Goa with Love, Paris Sketch Book and Germany in Wintertime amongst others.

He has exhibited his work in India and abroad USA, Uk, Germany, Israel, China, Japan, Australia and Portugal where he was awarded a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.

Mario Miranda lives in his anchestral home in Goa, and married to Habiba Hydari and has two sons, Raul and Rishaad.