Manjula Padmanabhan

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Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) is an author, playwright, artist, and cartoonist. She grew up in Europe and Southeast Asia, returning to India as a teenager. Her play Harvest won the Onassis Award for Theatre. Her two most recent books are Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities, a collection of short speculative fictions, and Taxi, a novel about a woman taxi driver, set in New Delhi.

  • A painting of two women, sitting on opposite ends of the frame, each holding a child. The woman on the left looks plainly human and holds a human child. The woman on the right looks like a goddess and is holding some kind of supernatural child.

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    May 2025
    Manjula Padmanabhan
    Illustration by Emily Holson, Mataji / @mayophoo Following a crisis, a doctor’s focus shifts to a mysterious infiltration.The little boy’s eyes were wide with terror. He sat on hi…