Shobhaa De
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| Born | Shobha Rajadhyaksha January 7, 1948 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India  |
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Shobhaa Dé (b. 7 January 1948) is an Indian columnist and novelist . Born Shobha Rajadhyaksha in a Maharashtrian Saraswat Brahmin family, she graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with a degree in psychology. After making her name as a model, she began a career in journalism in 1970, in the course of which she founded and edited three magazines – Stardust, Society, and Celebrity. [1]
In the 1980s, she contributed to the Sunday magazine of Times of India. A feminist, she supported equality between genders. In her column she used to explore the socialite life in Bombay and many of the hypocrisies of the celebrities. At present, she is a freelance writer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines. She lives with her second husband, Dilip De and their six children, in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai.
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- Superstar India From Incredible to Unstoppable
- Strange Obsession –
- Snapshots
- Starry Nights
- Spouse: The truth about marriage
- Speedpost - Penguin, New Delhi. 1999.
- Surviving Men - Penguin, New Delhi, 1998
- Selective Memory - Penguin, New Delhi. 1998.
- Second Thoughts - Penguin, New Delhi. 1996.
- Small betrayals - UBS Publishers' Distributors, 1995
- Shooting from the hip - UBS, Delhi, 1994.
- Sultry Days - Penguin, New Delhi. 1994.
- Uncertain Liaisons - Penguin, New Delhi. 1993.
- Sisters - Penguin, New Delhi. 1992.
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