Talking Books, held at Great State DIVE brings together readers and authors for casual but serious conversations, at a bar! Nandini Nair, the Arts & Books Editor of Delhi-based Open Magazine, curates this event. It has the intimacy of a drawing room conversation, and the energy of a bar. Readers can purchase their copies of the books during the event courtesy of the folks from Pagdandi Book Store. This month’s edition of Talking Books will feature Shobhaa Dé in conversation with Nandini Nair.

Shobhaa Dé 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 numerous Indian and international languages. She has been 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’. She is the author of numerous books, her most recent one Insatiable (Harper Collins) is an irreverent memoir about the year leading up to her seventy-fifth birthday. Quintessential exuberance and keen observations firmly in place, she tells us about travelling solo, feasting (and fasting) with family and friends, the triumphs and losses that accompany ageing, the vagaries and vulnerabilities of being a writer and, above all, how food connects people in the most unexpected places and delightful ways.

THIS TICKET ADMITS ONE AND COMES WITH A COMPLIMENTARY PINT OF BEER BY GREAT STATE ALEWORKS.