
Sessions
Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This
Clare Mackintosh with Shobhaa De
The Sensual Self
Shobhaa De with Santosh Desai
Bio
Shobhaa De, voted by Reader’s Digest as one of ‘India’s Most Trusted People’, is a bestselling author and a popular social commentator. Her works, both fiction and non-fiction, have been featured in comparative literature courses at universities in India and abroad and there are over 200 published dissertations on her fiction. Her writing has been translated into many languages including Hindi, French, German, Korean, Spanish and Russian, among others. She has been described as ‘A National Treasure’, by Amitav Ghosh. The Sensual Self, out in 2025, is her 28th book. She lives in Mumbai with her family.
