Manjula Padmanabhan (born 1953) is a playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author responsible for the play Harvest. She has also written such plays as Lights Out! (1984),Hidden Fires(solo by Rashi Bunny) The Artist's Model (1995) and Sextet (1996).
She has authored a collection of short stories, called Kleptomania. Her most recent book, published in 2008, is titled "Escape".
She created Suki, an Indian female comic character, which was serialized as a strip in Sunday Observer.