In her candid, inimitable style, Shobhaa De tackles ageing, shares advice with younger women, answers beauty questions and talks about travelling in her new memoir, Insatiable: My Hunger for Life, releasing on January 17.

De is one of the earliest India-based Indian novelists. She is the author of 20 books, including , Socialite Evenings, Starry Nights, Sultry Days, Shooting from the Hip and Srilaaji, and is best known for her depiction of socialites and sex in her works of fiction. The founder of Stardust is also a columnist for Deccan Chronicle and The Asian Age. She turned 75 yesterday.

In 2013, she had published Shobhaa at Sixty, wherein she had gone out on a limb to declare sixty to be the new forty.

In this book, which has been praised by Amitav Ghosh and Amitabh Bachchan, she promises to tip us off on what M.F. Husain asked for on his deathbed, Aamir Khan's dinner party menu and the source of the best mutton in Mumbai. Dig in!