• 'Shobhaa De is a wonderfully inventive writer whose pioneering experiments with Indian English led to the birth of a whole new idiom of desi expression. She is also a woman of unflinching courage who has stood up to bullies and chauvinists of many kinds. She is a national treasure.'-Amitav Ghosh

• 'Shobhaa De has been fearless, frank, direct, straightforward, explicit, unambiguous and unvarnished, both as a person and a celebrated journalist and writer! Insatiable-her voracious and unquenchable thirst for more could not have been better described than [in] the title of her book. May the accolades for her endeavour never end!'-Amitabh Bachchan

• 'I grew up reading Shobhaa De's columns in newspapers. She exposed me to a new way of seeing the world. Then, years later, I met her. First as a fan. Then as her friend. And I still read her, enjoying the way she explains the world to me: rooted, grounded, yet adventurous and fun.'-Devdutt Pattanaik

• 'Shobhaa De is a phenomenon. She is not just insatiable, she's completely unstoppable, and as this chatty, witty, perky book shows, she remains one of the most vivacious writers at work in India today.'-William Dalrymple

SHOBHAA DÉ, voted by Reader's Digest as one of ‘India's Most Trusted People' and by Daily News and Analysis as one of the ‘50 Most Powerful Women in India', 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. Her writing has been translated into many languages including Hindi, Marathi, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish, among others. Shobhaa lives in Mumbai with her family.