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	Apart from writing newspaper columns she created comic strips. She created Suki, an Indian comic character, which was serialized as a strip in ~~the~~ ''[[The Times of India\|The Sunday Observer]]''.<ref name="hindi2">{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800140500.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107210652/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800140500.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2012-11-07\|title=Antics of Suki\|last=Moddie\|first=Mandira\|date=2005-08-28\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|accessdate=2009-08-14}}</ref> Before 1997 (the year her play ''Harvest'' was staged) she was better known as cartoonist and had a daily cartoon strip in ''[[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)\|The Pioneer]]'' newspaper.		Apart from writing newspaper columns she created comic strips. She created Suki, an Indian comic character, which was serialized as a strip in ''[[The Times of India\|The Sunday Observer]]''.<ref name="hindi2">{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800140500.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107210652/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800140500.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2012-11-07\|title=Antics of Suki\|last=Moddie\|first=Mandira\|date=2005-08-28\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|accessdate=2009-08-14}}</ref> Before 1997 (the year her play ''Harvest'' was staged) she was better known as cartoonist and had a daily cartoon strip in ''[[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)\|The Pioneer]]'' newspaper.

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Career and works

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'''Manjula Padmanabhan''' (born 1953) is an Indian playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author.

== Career and works ==
She won the Greek Onassis Award for her play ''[[The Harvest (1997)|Harvest]]''. An award-winning film ''[[Deham]]'' was made by [[Govind Nihalani]] based on the play.

She has written one more powerful play, ''Lights Out!'' (1984), ''Hidden Fires'' is a series of monologues. ''The Artist's Model'' (1995) and ''Sextet'' are her other works.(1996).<ref name="hindi1">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/01/03/stories/2009010350250200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105071159/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/01/03/stories/2009010350250200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-05|title=Is it the great escape?|last=Matthan|first=Ayesha|date=2009-01-03|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2009-08-14}}</ref>

She has also authored a collection of short stories, called ''Kleptomania''. Her most recent book, published in 2008, is ''Escape''.<ref name="hindi1" />

Apart from writing newspaper columns she created comic strips. She created Suki, an Indian comic character, which was serialized as a strip in the ''[[The Times of India|The Sunday Observer]]''.<ref name="hindi2">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800140500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107210652/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800140500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-07|title=Antics of Suki|last=Moddie|first=Mandira|date=2005-08-28|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2009-08-14}}</ref> Before 1997 (the year her play ''Harvest'' was staged) she was better known as cartoonist and had a daily cartoon strip in ''[[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)|The Pioneer]]'' newspaper.

===As playwright===
*1984 - "Lights Out"
* 2003. ''Harvest''. London: Aurora Metro Books

===As author and illustrator===
* 2013. ''Three Virgins and Other Stories'' New Delhi, India: Zubaan Books.
*2015. ''Island of Lost Girls.'' Hachette.
* 2011. ''I am different! Can you find me?'' Watertown, Mass: Charlesbridge Pub.
*2008. ''Escape''. Hachette.
* 2005. ''Unprincess!'' New Delhi: Puffin Books.
* 1986. ''A Visit to the City Market'' New Delhi: National Book Trust
* 2003. ''Mouse Attack''

===As Illustrator===
* Baig, Tara Ali, and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1979. ''Indrani and the enchanted jungle.'' New Delhi: Thomson Press (India) Ltd.
* Maithily Jagannathan and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1984. ''Droopy dragon''. New Delhi: Thomson Press.

===Comic Strips===
* 2005. ''Double talk''. New Delhi: Penguin Books.

===Autobiography===
* 2002. ''Getting There''

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal |Children's literature}}
*[https://penguin.co.in/book_author/manjula-padmanabhan/ Manjula Padmanabhan] at [[Penguin India]]

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