Manjula Padmanabhan

• Beauty and the beast
  
• The magic of pencils
  
• Encounters of the third kind
  
• A man scalded by milk blows on yoghurt
  
• The right kind of restraint is a prerequisite to every kind of freedom
  
• Mass communication is, in every sense, the genie of our era's magic lamp
  
• Many parents use guilt and obligation to puncture
  a child's self-confidence, then suck out a life-term of devotion
  
• Female characters in Disney films have for long been locked into Princess or Wicked Witch stereotypes
  
• The future looks bleaker than ever, except for the makers of ear-plugs
  
• The video show
  
• On a sunny day in winter, anything's possible. Even democracy.
  
• I am a fugitive from the chain gang
  
• India has a strong and well developed body,
  but her face is darkened with self-doubt
  
• That verminous little tetragrammaton that rhymes with duck...