Manjula Padmanabhan

Age range 3+Minnie goes out alone on a big busy street to look for her little lost cat, Pooni. But the runaway Pooni is on a trip of her own!

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Age range 8+Three days to go before a gigantic killer asteroid will end life on Earth! Everyone is in a panic. Everyone, that is, but Vanita, who has things to do. Such as saving the planet. She has a plan drawn up to the minutest detail. All pure science. With just a little help from fridge magnets, a little puppy — and a special 'shrinking' gift that she has. Columns, short stories, novels, plays, a long-running cartoon strip, Suki...Manjula Padmanabhan traverses all these genres with ease. For Tulika she has created three books with Pooni the cat, as well as four very popular picture puzzle books.

Age range 6+Oh you creatures of the day!Can you EVER know the nightYou need light so much for sight,When evening falls you don't feel right. 'What is night?' asks a little girl of the owl, the earthworm, the firefly… Glowing out from the pages, their answers merge into a tapestry of the more mysterious sides of night-time and the curious habits of creatures that come to life in darkness.

EDIZIONE IN DOPPIA LINGUA INGLESE E ITALIANODUAL LANGUAGE EDITION ENGLISH AND ITALIANIndia, futuro prossimo: questi nove racconti, come fili protesi verso il domani, esplorano il variegato arazzo della narrativa di speculazione indiana, toccando temi come l'avvento della biopolitica, i collegamenti tra i nuovi (social) media e il linguaggio, l'ascesa inesorabile di Big Data e algoritmi, la diffusione delle stampanti 3D, il riscorso sempre maggiore a protesi e potenziamento umano, senza tralasciare i rischi connessi all'uso delle biotecnologie e della sorveglianza informatica, per finire con i dilemmi filosofici posti all'immortalit dalla presenza degli avatar virtuali e l'emergenza climatica nell'era dell'Antropocene.Per provare a comprendere le questioni pi impellenti dei nostri tempi dobbiamo rivolgere lo sguardo al futuro. India, the near future: these nine stories, like threads reaching towards tomorrow, explore the variegated tapestry of Indian speculative fiction, touching on themes like the advent of bio-politics, the connections between new (social) media and language, the inexorable rise of Big Data and algorithms, the spread of 3D printers, and the increasing use of prosthetics and human enhancement, without neglecting the risks associated with the use of bio-technologies and computer surveillance, concluding with the philosophical dilemmas posed to immortality by the presence of virtual avatars and the climate emergency in the era of the Anthropocene.To try to understand the most pressing issues of our times, we need to look at the future.

Aina ei voi tietää, mikä on totta, mikä taas valhetta, huijausta tai kokonaan olematonta. Tämän kokoelman kymmenessä novellissa nykypäivän Intiaa, nopeasti kehittyvää mutta silti pitkien perinteiden leimaamaa yhteiskuntaa tarkastellaan milloin suurennuslasilla, milloin kaukoputkella - ja toisiaan kuin kaleidoskoopin läpi katsellen.Aito huijaus, kymmenen intialaisen nykynovellin kokoelma, esittelee kymmenen kirjailijaa: Tabish Khair, Parvati Sharma, Shahnaz Habib, Radhika Jha, Jaspreet Singh, Anjum Hasan, Mridula Koshy, Janice Pariat, Philip John ja Manjula Padmanabhan. He ovat kotoisin eri puolilta Intiaa ja edustavat eri kirjallisuudenlajeja arkisesta realismista fantasiaan. Yhteistä heille on se, että he kaikki kirjoittavat teoksensa englanniksi eikä kenenkään tekstejä ole aiemmin suomennettu. Antologian on koonnut ja suomentanut Titia Schuurman. Tarinoiden hahmot kotirouvasta sotavankiin ja sanomalehtimiehestä vampyyriin joutuvat kukin omalla tavallaan arvaamattomiin tilanteisiin, joissa matto tuntuu liukuvan niin henkilön kuin lukijankin jalkojen alta. Olipa kyseessä sitten arkipäiväinen yllätys tai olemassaolon perusteita ravisteleva tapahtuma tai havainto - yhtä kaikki se pakottaa kokijansa tarttumaan tilanteeseen omalla, omintakeisella ja usein yllättävällä tavallaan.

From the award-winning writer of the acclaimed play "Harvest", this debut collection of stories will electrify readers with its unusual, radical, and troubling themes. Here are ten tales, some new, some old, and all of them edgy. In biting and satirical critiques of contemporary society, Manjula Padmanabhan displays a remarkable range. We read of a white American widow who plans a designer version of sati, or self-immolation, a pervert and his magic phallus on a double-decker bus, a black American girl with a unique take on Hindu civilization, a juvenile mad scientist who schemes in a proletarian dystopia, electronic simulacra that make high-voltage love, and a mature scientist who confronts infertility in teeming India. For good measure, there's also a coming-of-age story, a marriage proposal, a thwarted murder, and a story about the Government of India's Bureau of Reincarnation.

A satire on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West. Om is driven by poverty to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. Jeetu, his brother returns unexpectedly and is taken away as the donor. Om can't accept this, so he follows his brother. Jaya, his wife is left alone. Will she too be seduced into selling her body for use by the rich westerners? Winner of the Onassis International Play Competition. Broadcast on the BBC World Service and now a feature film.