Nainital
Literature
Festival

Shunali Khullar Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer and author whose work spans fiction,

essays, podcasting, and cultural commentary. Her writing has appeared across leading

publications, where she examines womanhood, class, identity, popular culture, art, travel,

and the absurdities of modern Indian life. She is the author of he bestselling novel Love in

the Time of Affluenza, praised by Kevin Kwan and Manu Joseph for its razor-sharp satire and

distinctive voice, and the memoir Battle Hymn of a Bewildered Mother, a cult favourite among

the over-scheduled and under-slept.

Shunali is also the co-host of Not Your Aunty, a popular culture podcast where nothing is

sacred and everything is up for dissection with irreverent humour. It recently ranked among

the Top 100 Podcasts in the World — at #73 globally, right after Oprah — in a cross-

genre global listing by Goodpods.