Manjula Padmanabhan

Manjula Padmanabhan is an author, playwright, artist and cartoonist. WEB-SITE: www.magnoliana.com Her play Harvest won the first ever Onassis Award for Theatre, in 1997, in Greece. Her weekly comic strip Sukiyaki appears in ‘Business Line’, a Chennai-based financial newspaper. She writes a weekly column called Here,There & Elsewhere in ‘BLink’, the weekend magazine of ‘Business Line’. Her books include the novels Escape and The Island of Lost Girls, centered on gender conflict in a brutal future world.