Manjula Padmanabhan
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 "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). She has also authored a collection of short stories, called "Kleptomania". Her most recent book, published in 2008, is "Escape". Apart from writing newspaper columns she  created comic strips. She created Suki, an Indian comic character, which was serialized as a strip in "The Sunday Observer". Before 1997 (the year her play "Harvest" was staged) she was better known as cartoonist and had a daily cartoon strip in "The Pioneer" newspaper.