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Shobhaa De
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Irreverent, provocative, opinionated... Shobhaa De has been challenging status quo for four decades... and is at her best when she punctures inflated egoes. You can reach her at: @ShobhaaDe(Instagram) and @DeShobhaa(Twitter).
    Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan. (PTI File)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | Bollywood joins forces, but for what exactly?

    While every industry is well within its rights to seek redressal, it is important to ask what exactly has miffed...

    17 Oct 2020 9:38 AM IST

    People from various organizations stage a protest against the alleged gang-rape of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradeshs Hathras, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Shobhaa De | Dalit lives: No more than a heap of ashes

    To call UP anything else but a barbaric, no man’s land, would be insulting women across the country

    3 Oct 2020 6:26 PM IST

    The Central Vista project design (Image: HCP Designs)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | A monument to a monumental ego

    Heritage and history need to be respected, even by those determined to rewrite both

    19 Sept 2020 5:30 PM IST

    Taslimbano Harun Pathan, the school principal of Aasha Marathi Vidyalay, points to a writing from textbooks of various subjects painted on the wall of a house to teach students who are unable to carry smartphones to attend online school classes amid Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Solapur. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Shobhaa De | Chana Kisney Khaaya… Rasode Mein Kaun Tha?

    This is the aftereffect of the GDP debacle, which has set India back by a staggering 24 per cent

    5 Sept 2020 5:53 PM IST

    PM Narendra Modi (AFP)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | In search of Idealistic India: It will rise again

    Are we shortchanging this generation of intelligent, capable young people?

    22 Aug 2020 6:57 PM IST

    Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty (C) leaves the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office after questioning within the scope of the investigation of the suicide case of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, in Mumbai. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Shobhaa De | Playing cops & robbers in Mumbai-ishstyle drama

    This week, all the loose ends were supposed to be tied up neatly by Mumbai police, but wait, Bihar police dramatically...

    8 Aug 2020 6:43 PM IST

    Relatives hold an elderly woman (C) as a health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing centre in Srinagar. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Shobhaa De | Drastic survival steps to live through COVID times

    With no signs of abatement, most of us are now resigned to a bleak future with dark clouds on the horizon

    25 July 2020 6:43 PM IST

    Representational image (AFP)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | Living in tough times: Drastic survival steps

    One stoically reads about the saddest tales of grit, survival, defeat and loss during these terrible times of suffering...

    25 July 2020 5:40 PM IST

    Police inspect the encounter site where gangster Vikas Dubey was killed when he allegedly tried to escape from the spot following an accident, near Kanpu. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Shobhaa De | Gangsterism in politics: Vikas Dubey in UP-'s Wild West

    Dubey’s subsequent arrest and murder are clearly a part of the huge coverup, now that the game is up

    11 July 2020 6:38 PM IST

    Statues of people long dead, and possibly of zero relevance to our times, should be dismissed, ignored, and removed if they have become painful reminders of something hateful in the past. Twitter photoOpinion
    Shobhaa De | 150 years of Mahatma: Why are we so touchy?

    In the case of Mahatma Gandhi, why is our national outrage this pronounced?

    27 Jun 2020 5:41 PM IST

    PM Narendra Modi (AFP)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | Plug and play, says PM: Enter political gaming!

    The sort of administrative negligence one comes across is mind-numbing, to say the least

    13 Jun 2020 5:39 PM IST

    Representational image (PTI)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | Where are our godmen when they are needed?

    Mumbai experiences devastating floods, the authorities promptly trot out some more nonsensical statistics to justify...

    30 May 2020 7:00 PM IST

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