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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).
    In this May 3, 2020, file photo, an Indian Air Force helicopter showers flower petals on the staff of INS Asvini hospital in Mumbai, India. AP PhotoOpinion
    Shobhaa De: Thank God Indians still have a sense of humour!

    In itself and on paper, the stimulus package looked good -- at least in the way it was marketed . But did it make much...

    16 May 2020 7:15 PM IST

    Irrfans lockdown funeral took place a few hours before Rishi Kapoor breathed his last. PTI PhotosOpinion
    Shobhaa De: Farewell, Rishi & Irrfan, two icons India will salute

    Both died of cancer, despite getting the best possible international treatment Irrfan Khan in London and Rishi Kapoor...

    2 May 2020 5:00 PM IST

    A few faithful pray at the Jama Masjid in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)Opinion
    Shobhaa De: Should Muslims vanish? Shun hate amidst crisis

    Prejudice creeps in stealthily when nobody is looking

    18 April 2020 2:34 PM IST

    An avalanche of mixed reactions followed the prime ministers message to light a lamp on Sunday. (AFP)Opinion
    Shobhaa De: Diya jalao, folks! Diwali in April!

    Get ready to celebrate the festival in April. The coronavirus can take care of itself.

    4 April 2020 9:46 PM IST

    Prime minister Narendra Modi delivering his address to the nation. (PTI)Opinion
    Dear Nagriks — Seeti bajaao… taali bajaao

    What we were handed out was a school master’s lesson in model behaviour. The PM could easily have emailed it.

    22 March 2020 6:58 PM IST

    A hoarding with picture of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Trumps forthcoming Namaste Trump event in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Trump bhaisaab aayega: Aapun ke vaastey kya?

    “The wall” in India is being mocked as aggressively as the other, more notorious wall in America.

    22 Feb 2020 5:20 AM IST

    There have been attempts to convert Nazias sons death into something else and not a sad consequence of him being present at Shaheen Bagh in the bone-chilling cold of the capital. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Is the BJP paying attention to the voices from Shaheen Bagh?

    The rest of the disturbing and depressing domestic news involves comical clips that would have raised a chuckle had they...

    8 Feb 2020 5:55 AM IST

    For the three days that I spent in the City of (limited) Joy, I passed the venue of the ongoing protests against the CAA and NRC.Opinion
    Conversations by women, about women…

    Delhi’s “Shaheen Bagh model” is being efficiently cloned from Lucknow, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Prayagraj to Kolkata.

    25 Jan 2020 3:22 AM IST

    Jawaharlal Nehru University campus. (Photo: PTI/Representational)Opinion
    After JNU attack, bring on the black bands

    The biggest and most significant takeaway of the widespread response to the JNU attack is this: Citizens have got their...

    11 Jan 2020 1:10 AM IST

    College students protest after the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was cleared by the Union Cabinet recently in Guwahati on Friday. (PTI)Opinion
    Am I a citizen of India? Dunno! I am still scratching my head

    The Assam agitation will polarise India like no other political development since Independence.

    14 Dec 2019 12:24 AM IST

    Mumbai-Uddhav Thackeray, President of Shiv Sena along with his wife Rashmi Thackeray, son Aditya and Tejas arrives during Swearing-in-ceremony of Maha Vikas Aghadi, an alliance formed with Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), held at Shivaji Park, Dadar on Thursday November 28, 2019 in Mumbai. Uddhav Thackeray, son of Balasaheb Thackeray, founder of Shiv Sena become the first person from Thackeray family as Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Thousands of Shiv Sainiks, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party workers were gathered at the venue. (Photo Rajesh Jadhav)Opinion
    Maha ghotala and ‘Gondhal’ in Maharashtra

    Mumbaikars are known to shrug, grin and get going with their lives in the metro.

    30 Nov 2019 2:02 AM IST

    His attitude was vintage Air India. And I was so relieved that it still exists at least in a few dedicated employees. It is, of course, very hard to ignore reports of on-board scuffles, regular no-shows by crew members, sudden sick leave absentees, drunk pilots and co-pilots, stories of sexual abuse and nepotism, apart from a cavalier attitude thrown at paying passengers.Opinion
    Is India prepared to bid the Maharajah a royal goodbye?

    Soon after both these brief encounters, came the news of the debt-laden airline’s auction scheduled for November 15.

    16 Nov 2019 12:16 AM IST

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