{"product_id":"harvest-9780953675777","title":"Harvest","description":"Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. When his brother Jeetu arrives unexpectedly, he is taken away as the donor. Om's wife Jaya is left alone. Will she too be seduced into selling her body for use by the rich Westerners?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eManjula Padmanabhan (born 1953) is an award-winning Indian playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author. Her works explore science, technology, gender, and international inequalities. \u003cp\u003ePadmanabhan continued working as a journalist and book reviewer into her 20s and 30s.[3] She began her career as an illustrator in 1979 with Ali Baig's book \u003ci\u003eIndrani and the Enchanted Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e.[2]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, Padmanabhan created a comic strip, \u003ci\u003eDoubletalk\u003c\/i\u003e, which featured the female character Suki.[4] She wrote a pitch to \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Observer\u003c\/i\u003e editor Vinod Mehta, who published her strip for many years.[5][6] Suki then appeared six days a week in Delhi paper\u003ci\u003eThe Pioneer\u003c\/i\u003e from 1992 to 1998. When Vinod Mehta left the publications and \u003ci\u003eThe Pioneer\u003c\/i\u003e stopped publishing comics, Padmanabhan stopped creating \u003ci\u003eDoubletalk.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePadmanabhan won the first ever Onassis Award for her play \u003ci\u003eHarvest\u003c\/i\u003e. An award-winning film \u003ci\u003eDeham\u003c\/i\u003e was made by Govind Nihalani based on the play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePadmanabhan has continued to work as an author and illustrator, and has published short stories within many different volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePadmanabhan returned to creating comics featuring Suki with the strip \u003ci\u003eSuki Yaki\u003c\/i\u003e for The Hindu's Business Line.\u003c\/p\u003eAs playwright\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2006 - \u003ci\u003eSextet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2003 - \u003ci\u003eHarvest\u003c\/i\u003e. London: Aurora Metro Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1996 \u003ci\u003e- The Artist's Model.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1984 - \"Lights Out\"[3]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eAs author and illustrator\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2015 - \u003ci\u003eIsland of Lost Girls.\u003c\/i\u003e Hachette.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2013 - \u003ci\u003eThree Virgins and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e New Delhi, India: Zubaan Books.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2011 - \u003ci\u003eI am different! Can you find me?\u003c\/i\u003e Watertown, Mass: Charlesbridge Pub.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2008 - \u003ci\u003eEscape\u003c\/i\u003e. Hachette.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2005 - \u003ci\u003eUnprincess!\u003c\/i\u003e New Delhi: Puffin Books.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2005 - \u003ci\u003eDouble talk\u003c\/i\u003e. New Delhi: Penguin Books.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2004 - \u003ci\u003eKleptomania: Ten Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. New Delhi: Penguin Books.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2004 - \u003ci\u003eMouse Invadors.\u003c\/i\u003e Pan MacMillan. Written under the name Manjula Padma.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2003 - \u003ci\u003eMouse Attack.\u003c\/i\u003e Pan MacMillan\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Written under the name Manjula Padma.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2000 - \u003ci\u003eThis is Suki!\u003c\/i\u003e New Delhi: Duckfoot Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1996 - \u003ci\u003eHot death, cold soup: twelve short stories.\u003c\/i\u003e New Delhi: Kali for Women.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1986 - \u003ci\u003eA Visit to the City Market\u003c\/i\u003e New Delhi: National Book Trust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eAs Illustrator\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989 - Indi Rana and Manjala Padmanabhan. \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in the Dustbin\u003c\/i\u003e. London: Hamish Hamilton.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1984 - Maithily Jagannathan and Manjula Padmanabhan. \u003ci\u003eDroopy dragon\u003c\/i\u003e. New Delhi: Thomson Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1979 - Baig, Tara Ali, and Manjula Padmanabhan. \u003ci\u003eIndrani and the enchanted jungle.\u003c\/i\u003e New Delhi: Thomson Press (India) Ltd.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eComic Strips\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e2015 - \u003ci\u003eSuki Yaki\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Hindu's Business Line\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003e1982-1998 - \u003ci\u003eDoubletalk\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Observer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pioneer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cul\u003eShort Stories\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2019 - \"The Rehearsal\" in \u003ci\u003eDisplaced lives fiction, poetry, memoirs, and plays from four continents\u003c\/i\u003e. Ed. 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