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Shobhaa De

Indian journalist and novelist

Shobha De (néeRajadhyaksha, formerly Kilachand; born 7 January ) is an Indian novelist and columnist. She is best known for her depiction of socialites and sex in her works of fiction,[1] for which she has been referred to as the "Jackie Collins of India."[2][3]

Early life and education

Shobhaa De was born on 7 January [4] in Mumbai into a MarathiBrahmin family, even though she just portrays being Hindu.[5] Her father was a district court judge, and her mother was a home-maker.[1] The youngest of four siblings, she has two sisters and a brother.[2]

Shobha grew up in Mumbai, where she attended Queen Mary School.

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She graduated from Saint Xavier's College.[6]

Career

At age 17, she began her career as a model,[1] which lasted for five years.[7] At age 20, she began her career as a journalist, writing "agony aunt" advice columns and features for society magazines.[2] She was the editor of the magazine Stardust from , which included Bollywood interviews, gossip, and photographs.[1][4]

In the s, she contributed to the Sunday magazine section of The Times of India.

She has since been a regular columnist for several newspapers.[4] She has also written several popular soaps on television.

Ankita Shukla wrote for The Times of India, in , that "unignorable has been Shobhaa De's unabashed description of the womenfolk in her novels. De's women range from traditional, subjugated and marginalized to the extremely modern and liberated women.

De's novels take a leaf the urban life and represent realistically an intimate side of urban woman's life, also revealing her plight in the present day society."[8] In , Mark Fineman of the Los Angeles Times described her as "India's hottest-selling English-language novelist," and how her second novel, Starry Nights (), had "a drawing of a nude woman on the front cover," and according to De, "they said it was the first time they’d broken through the ‘F’ barrier, the first time they’d run the F-word without asterisks."[2] Urmee Khan writes for The Guardian in , "Her books are steeped in a lifetime's observation of Bollywood," and "They describe a side of the country that western audiences rarely encounter, her central themes being power, greed, lust and sex."[1]

In , De and Penguin Books created the publishing imprint Shobhaa De Books.[9]

De has also participated in several literary festivals, including the Bangalore Literature Festival,[7] having been part of it since its first edition.[10][better&#;source&#;needed]

Personal life

Shobha has married twice and has often said that she is the mother of six children, which includes two stepchildren.[2]

Directly after graduation, Shobha married Sudhir Vrajlal Kilachand, of the Kilachand Marwadi business family.

They quickly became the parents of a son and a daughter.[2] The marriage ended in divorce.

Shobha then married Dilip De, a businessman in the shipping industry, and a Bengali.[2] This was Dilip's second marriage also, and he has two children by his previous marriage. Shobha and Dilip De became the parents of a further two daughters.[2][11][12]

Books

  • Srilaaji – Diary of a Marwari Matriarch, Simon & Schuster ()[13][14]
  • Lockdown Laisons ()[14][15]
  • Small Betrayals − Hay House India, New Delhi, [14]
  • Seventy And to Hell with It ()[16]
  • Shobhaa: Never a Dull De − Hay House India, New Delhi,
  • Shethji −[3]
  • Shobhaa at Sixty −Hay House India, New Delhi,
  • Sandhya's secret −
  • Superstar India – From Incredible to Unstoppable
  • Strange Obsession
  • Snapshots
  • Spouse: The truth about marriage ()[17]
  • Speedpost – Penguin, New Delhi.

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  • Surviving Men – Penguin, New Delhi, [17]
  • Selective Memory – Penguin, New Delhi. [4]
  • Second Thoughts – Penguin, New Delhi.

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  • Small betrayals – UBS Publishers' Distributors,
  • Shooting from the hip – UBS, Delhi,
  • Sultry Days – Penguin, New Delhi.
  • Sisters – Penguin, New Delhi.
  • Starry Nights – , India, Penguin, New Delhi ISBN&#;, Pub date&#;?&#;? , paperback
  • Socialite Evenings – , India, Penguin, New Delhi ISBN&#;, Pub date&#;?&#;?

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdeKhan, Urmee (4 May ).

    "Hooray for Bollywood". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June

  2. ^ abcdefghFineman, Mark (1 April ).

    "'The Jackie Collins of India'".

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  7. ^ abBetigeri, Aarti (18 February ). "Meet India's Jackie Collins, Shobhaa De". ABC Australia. Retrieved 22 June
  8. ^ abcdDasgupta, Shougat (10 January ).

    "That Shobhaa De show: Godmother of Indian chatterati embraces her 70s with new book". India Today.

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  9. ^Nandgaonkar, Satish; Rashid, Omar (14 April ). "My DNA is % Maharashtrian, says Shobhaa De". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 August
  10. ^Sen, Debarati S. (12 October ). "My days in Xavier's were the defining years for me: Shobhaa De | Mumbai News".

    The Times of India. Retrieved 12 September

  11. ^ abSarmmah, Surupasree (30 October ). "Editing script of my life was important: Shobhaa De". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 22 June
  12. ^Shukla, Ankita (21 December ). "Depiction of women in literature through ages".

    The Times of India. Retrieved 22 June

  13. ^"Shobhaa De, Penguin script new chapter". The Times of India. TNN. 9 April Retrieved 22 June
  14. ^"Soak in the cultural extravaganza that's the Bangalore Lit Fest".

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  15. ^Bobb, Dilip (28 February ). "Shobhaa De's 'Spouse' takes a hard look at Indian marriages". India Today. Retrieved 10 September
  16. ^Daniel, Vaihayasi P (16 February ). "'Marriage is becoming like the dinosaur'".

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  17. ^Salim, Lubna (25 October ). "The tales of two women". Hindustan Times.

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  18. ^ abcKumar, Surya Praphulla (31 July ). "Shobhaa De on her latest book, Lockdown Liasons". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 June
  19. ^Ghoshal, Somak (15 June ). "Sex, lies and job loss: Shobhaa De on her weekly lockdown stories".

    Mint. Retrieved 23 June

  20. ^Khandelwal, Tara (9 November ).

  23. "70 And To Hell With It, Says Shobhaa De". . Retrieved 22 June

  24. ^ abcBobb, Dilip (28 February ). "Shobhaa De's 'Spouse' takes a hard look at Indian marriages". India Today. Retrieved 22 June

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