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Sharing Air

Sharing Air

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Manjula Padmanabhan
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Picture living in a world that has you constantly tethered to an oxygen tank, covered from head to toe in a body suit and buying dated air that you can sniff without your head gear on for cheap thrills. A world where the elders tell their children stories about the time their ancestors lived and breathed through an air cocktail—like savages!

As if it wasn’t already hard living in a world like this, imagine having to go through the pressure of attending “sharing air” parties that everyone seems to be going to these days. Apparently, membership at The ToxiClub society is at an all-time high.

Whether or not you believe you can handle the ToxiClub, “Sharing Air” is a fascinating glimpse into a world that’s scarily plausible. Science fiction offers a writer an opportunity to go directly to the heart of an ironical or thought-provoking situation and by setting up this theoretical world, Manjula Padmanabhan hits the nail right on the head with equal literary aplomb.

Imprint: Penguin

Published: Jan/2018

Length : 15 Pages

MRP : ₹15.00

Sharing Air

(Penguin Petit)

Manjula Padmanabhan

Picture living in a world that has you constantly tethered to an oxygen tank, covered from head to toe in a body suit and buying dated air that you can sniff without your head gear on for cheap thrills. A world where the elders tell their children stories about the time their ancestors lived and breathed through an air cocktail—like savages!

As if it wasn’t already hard living in a world like this, imagine having to go through the pressure of attending “sharing air” parties that everyone seems to be going to these days. Apparently, membership at The ToxiClub society is at an all-time high.

Whether or not you believe you can handle the ToxiClub, “Sharing Air” is a fascinating glimpse into a world that’s scarily plausible. Science fiction offers a writer an opportunity to go directly to the heart of an ironical or thought-provoking situation and by setting up this theoretical world, Manjula Padmanabhan hits the nail right on the head with equal literary aplomb.

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Manjula Padmanabhan

Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953), is a writer and artist living in New Delhi. Her books include Hot Death, Cold Soup (Kali for Women, 1996), Getting There (Picador India, 1999) and This is Suki! (Duckfoot Press, 2000). Harvest (Kali for Women, 1998 and subsequently in three separate international anthologies), her fifth play, won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre. She has illustrated twenty-two books for children including, most recently, her own first novel for children, Mouse Attack (Macmillan Children's Books, UK, 2003; Picador India, 2004). Her comic strips appeared weekly in The Sunday Observer (Bombay, 1982-86) and daily in The Pioneer (New Delhi, 1991-97). Her most recent exhibition was of etchings and lithographs (London, December 2003).

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