Shohbaa De profile

       In the Express Tribune's Sunday Magazine Mohsin Sayeed profiles A cat called Shohbaa -- i.e. Shohbaa De.
       I actually have a pile of her books, and hope to get to them at some point; I do think her natural métier is the schlock-pulp, so I really hope she doesn't take the concluding sentences to heart:

From socio-political issues to religio-cultural topics, gender politics to bodypolitik, Shohbaa De eloquently describes and puts things in perspective like a historiographer. All that remains is for her to translate all this knowledge and understanding into a social history book or a novel about contemporary India -- a book that makes her graduate from item number girl to a substantial, artistic, serious performer of the written word.

       Shohbaa De as historiographer ? 'Serious performer of the written word' ? Dear god, haven't we endured enough ? Let her -- and us -- stick to the kind of entertainments she knows and does best .....