Biography (from the publishers): Shobhaa De is one of India's best-selling
authors. She is the author of thirteen books all of which have topped
bestseller lists in India, where she has revolutionised commercial women's
fiction and redefined the mass-market bestseller. She is recognized as an
important social commentator and an authority on popular culture. Outspoken and
forthright, De chronicles today's India in her own inimitable style. Born in
Maharashtra in 1948 she was educated in Delhi and Bombay. She graduated from St
Xavier's College, Bombay, with a degree in psychology and began a career in
journalism in 1970. She founded and edited three popular magazines - Stardust,
Society and Celebrity. She is presently a freelance
writer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines including the Sunday
Times of India, The Week
and Bombay Times. She is married with six children and lives in
Bombay. Bollywood Nights is
her first novel to be published in the UK. “Ms De shocks India, and
much of its literary set like no other writer today” New York Times
Shobhaa
De is the author of the following books: Socialite Evenings (1989), Starry
Nights (the original title of Bollywood Nights 1991), Sisters
(1992), Strange Obsession (1992), Sultry Days (1994), Snapshots
(1995), Second
Thoughts (1996), Surviving Men (1997), and Speedpost
(1999). She has also written the
autobiographical Selective Memory: Stories from My Life.
Anti Column
– one of Shobha De’s articles
Vijay Mallya has
Koffee with Shobhaa De – extracts from a TV interview
The Shobha De chat – an online
chat with Shobha De
Shobha De calls for a
reality check – Shobha De talks about the Indian fashion industry
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