Speedpost (book)

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| author = Shobha De

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| country = India

| language = English

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| genre = Essay

| publisher = Viking Books

| release_date = 1999

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Speedpost is a book written in 1999 by Shobha De. The book is a series of letters to her six children, either grown, or nearly so. The subjects she approaches through the medium of letters include: growing pains and adolescent anxieties about love, sex and friendship; religion and God; the challenge of being a responsible parent, death, remembrance and family traditions, the place of career, sex and of values in the lives of her children.{{cite magazine |last=Bose |first=Brinda |date=2000-01-03 |title=Book review: Shobha De's 'Speedpost' |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/book-review-of-shobha-de-speedpost/1/243194.html |magazine=India Today |accessdate=2024-09-18 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240918102524/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/books/story/20000103-book-review-of-shobha-de-speedpost-776855-2000-01-02 |archivedate=2024-09-18}}{{cite news |last=Banker |first=Ashok |author-link=Ashok Banker |date=1999 |title=Penguin Books India: Speedpost |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDFuAAAAMAAJ&q=Speedpost |accessdate=2024-09-18 |newspaper=Indian Review of Books |page=28 |via=Google Books}}{{cite thesis |last=Patidar |first=Renu |date=2013 |title=Shobha De's Contribution to Post-colonial Indian English Fiction |degree=PhD |publisher=Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya |pages=193–195 |id={{ProQuest|2314278468}}}}{{cite book |last=Muteba |first=Bertha |url=https://archive.org/details/worldauthors20000000unse/page/152/ |title=World Authors, 2000–2005 |date=2007 |publisher=H. W. Wilson Company |isbn=978-0-8242-1077-9 |editor1-last=Curry |editor1-first=Jennifer |location=New York |page=152 |editor2-last=Ramm |editor2-first=David |editor3-last=Rich |editor3-first=Mari |editor4-last=Rolls |editor4-first=Albert |via=Internet Archive |accessdate=2024-09-18}}{{cite book |last=Krishnan |first=Mini |title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English |date=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415-278850 |editor1-last=Benson |editor1-first=Eugene |edition=2 |location=Abingdon |chapter=Letters (India) |id=ProQuest 2137908344 |editor2-last=Conolly |editor2-first=L.W.}}