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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 file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | V is for valour, victory… But V is also for vaccine!

    Questions about decisions that will affect the heath and well-being of our planet will be decided by politicians!

    12 Dec 2020 8:58 AM IST

    Are we pinning unrealistic hopes on the vaccine saving humanity? (Representational Image:AP)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | High hopes over vaccine: Are we being unrealistic?

    Here’s my prediction for what it is worth: our great PM will be the first, high-profile citizen to take the vaccine

    28 Nov 2020 5:19 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump. (AFP)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | How to be a good loser… Don needs crash course

    It is said true character gets revealed not when you win big but when you lose even bigger

    13 Nov 2020 10:14 PM IST

    Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav addresses during the second leg of campaign for Bihar assembly polls, in Samastipur district, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
    Shobhaa De | Battle for Bihar: Super flop or a blockbuster?

    It’s time for “Battle cry Bihar”! And this stellar star cast can take the pants off just about any actor from...

    31 Oct 2020 9:48 AM IST

    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

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