"Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) is a Delhi-based writer and artist. Her comic strips appeared weekly in the Sunday Observer (Bombay, 1982–86) and daily in the Pioneer (New Delhi, 1991–97). Her books include Hot Death, Cold Soup, Getting There, This is Suki!, Kleptomania and Double Talk.
Her play Harvest won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre. Manjula has illustrated twenty-four books for children, including her own novels for children Mouse Attack and Mouse Invaders."
