Shobha De: A Writer with a Sharp Edge

Pages:136-137
Rashmi Ahlawat (Department of English, Manav Bharti University, Solan, H.P)

Shobha De the daughter of a government officer was born in 1948 in Maharastra. She belongs to a Brahmin family. She received her primary education in Delhi and after her father’s transfer to Bombay; she did her graduation degree in Psychology from St. Xavier’s college, Bombay. She made Bombay her focal point of her writings. After making her name as model, she began her career in journalism in 1970, in the course of which she began publishing and editing three popular magazines ‘Stardust’, ‘Society’ and ‘Celebrity’. She also worked as a consulting editor to ‘Sunday’ and ‘Megacity’. At present, she is a freelance writer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines. She lives with her husband, Dilip De and six children in South Mumbai’s posh area the ‘Cuffe Parade’, which is the coastline residential area in India and Mumbai.