Episode description

She's a comic-strip artist, a playwright, a science fiction author -- a creator who doesn't fit into any box. Manjula Padmanabhan joins Amit Varma in episode 372 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her life and learnings.

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Also check out:
1. Manjula Padmanabhan on.Amazon, Wikipedia, Instagram, Substack and her own website.
2. Getting There -- Manjula Padmanabhan.
3. Harvest -- Manula Padmanabhan.
4. Escape -- Manjula Padmanabhan.
5. The Island Of Lost Girls -- Manjula Padmanabhan.
6. Blood and Laughter: Plays -- Manjula Padmanabhan.
7. Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities -- Manjula Padmanabhan.
8. My Friend Sancho -- Amit Varma.
9. Why We Sleep -- Matthew Walker.
10. The Rooted Cosmopolitanism of Sugata Srinivasaraju — Episode 277 of The Seen and the Unseen.
11. The Looking-Glass Self.
12. The Life and Times of Ira Pande -- Episode 369 of The Seen and the Unseen.
13. Escape With Manjula Padmanabhan (2008) -- Amit Varma.
14. Comedy Vs Mortality -- Amit Varma.
15. Ranjit Hoskote is Dancing in Chains — Episode 363 of The Seen and the Unseen.
16. How Not To Boil An Egg -- MFK Fisher.
17. Journey To Ixtlan -- Carlos Castaneda.
18. Anton Chekhov on Wikipedia, Britannica and Amazon.
19. The classic Derek Guy tweet..
20. Make Me a Canteen for My Soul — Episode 304 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sameer Seth and Yash Bhanage).
21. Deham -- Govind Nihalani.
22. Watchmen -- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
23. Amartya Ghosh on Spotify.
24. Declutter -- Episode 30 of Everything is Everything.
25. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams.
26. Ursula K Le Guin, Ken Liu and Ted Chiang on Amazon.
27. Blue Apron.
28. Penelope Fitzgerald on Wikipedia, Britannica and Amazon.
29. Wordle and Words With Friends.
30. The House of Doors -- Tan Twan Eng.
31. The Gift of Rain -- Tan Twan Eng.
32. Fire On The Ganges -- Radhika Iyengar.
33. Amarcord -- Federico Fellini.
34. The Godfather -- Francis Ford Coppola.
35. The Obscure Object of Desire -- Luis Buñuel.
36. All That Jazz -- Bob Fosse.
37. Star Wars -- George Lucas.
38. Popcorn Essayists: What Movies Do to Writers -- Edited by Jai Arjun Singh.
39. The 400 Blows -- François Truffaut.
40. The Magus -- John Fowles.
41. Through the Looking-Glass -- Lewis Carroll.
42. The Beatles and Pink Floyd on Spotify.
43. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie --  Luis Buñuel.
44. The Phantom of Liberty --  Luis Buñuel.
45. Jean-Claude Carrière on Wikipedia and IMDb.
46. The Mahabharata -- Peter Brook.
47. The Unbearable Lightness of Being --  Philip Kaufman.
48. I Vitelloni -- Federico Fellini.

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Episode art: ‘Outsider’ by Simahina.