Intimacy in the time of Corona

Love, lust and fantasy take centre stage in Shobhaa De’s latest outing, penned during the pandemic

Two months into the lockdown and writer Shobhaa De has penned an entire book. “The lockdown has created countless new spaces for all of us to explore our own creative potential. We have the time and the impetus to document this strange new menace. Would we allow a microbe to dominate our thoughts? Kill imagination? Or would we use the time to enhance and hone our own creative potential. So many thoughts crowd my mind! So many emotional insights surface,” she says.

When life gives you lemons, some make lemonade, if you are Neruda, you pen an ode. In case of Shobha De, she has chosen to write a book! Location courtesy: JW Marriott, Juhu, Mumbai(Prabhat Shetty)

Published by Simon & Schuster India, the book will be first available in a digital format as weekly installments of short stories