Shobhaa De, perhaps better known  as the Maharani of Muck or the Princess of Porn, is India’s most commercially successful English-language author. She can be held responsible for the speeding up of the pace of sexual revolution in India with her sensuous novels.

After making her name as a model, she began a career in journalism in 1970, during the course of which she founded and edited three magazines – Stardust, Society, and Celebrity.

Shobha De , was born in Maharashtra, and did her education in Delhi and Bombay. After graduating with a degree in psychology from St. Xavier’s, she began her career as a journalist in the 1970s . Most of her writings focus on different aspects of urban India. The erotic matter that she has written in the past has become the subject of controversy.

In the 1980s, she contributed to the Sunday magazine section of the Times of India. In her columns, she used to explore the socialite life in Bombay lifestyles 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.

Shobha De has seen it all: life as a model, a copywriter, a journalist, a socialite, a scriptwriter, a novelist, a busy mother  among other things, and will continue to make or report news.

Books

• 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.