Manjula Padmanabhan

Manjula Padmanabhan

     Manjula Padmanabhan is a playwright, novelist, artist, illustrator and cartoonist. She is the author of the award winning play Harvest, which was awarded the Greek Onassis Award. 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. She has authored a collection of short stories, called Kleptomania.

HARVEST

      Manjula Padmanabhan in Harvest presents   a war between machine and man. The play shows the futuristic picture of the modern times where the machines will be replacing and distancing human beings gradually. The play warns through the character of Jaya how one has to govern the machines instead of being governed. It is a futuristic play about the sale of body parts and exploitative relations between developed and developing countries.