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Manu Vishranti: press kit

Bios, the names spelled right, facts about every work, and photographs.

Bios

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Manu Vishranti (मनु विश्रांति) is a creator, meditator, writer and researcher. He writes in English and in Hindi, building each version from the ground up rather than translating.

Longer

Manu Vishranti writes about the small objects a family uses to carry what it cannot say aloud. He works in English and in Hindi, building each version from the ground up rather than translating, on the understanding that a language is a way of noticing and not a set of equivalents. He also writes on meditation, and leads Neti Neti workshops. The Five Wounds, five novels and one companion volume, is his first published work of fiction.

His meditation diary puts his own notebook lines beside the scriptures, one line at a time, and lets each verse agree, disagree or answer. His game walks a player through the Sundar Kand beside thirty nine tellings of the Ramayana, and his comic lets every animal in a green forest dream of another. In Hindi he has written a novel saga in three volumes, Untalis Lankayen (उनतालीस लंकाएँ), in which a family walks through the Lankas of thirty nine tellings; it is being readied for publication. This site keeps all of it in one place.

Life, in brief

Born in New Delhi in 1990 and raised in Moga, Punjab, Manav Sharma (writing as Manu Vishranti) holds a Master of Computer Applications from Panjab University, Chandigarh. In 2008, as an NCC cadet at DM College, Moga, he was one of twenty cadets in India chosen for the NCC Boys' Mountaineering Expedition to Bhagirathi II; that year the Swami Vivekananda Study Circle selected him for its National Youth Award 2009, presented in February 2009. He later won gold and bronze at Panjab University's inter-college chess championship, and was awarded the university's Campus Colour in Chess for 2011-12. He founded Aimru Technologies while in college and later Meshcron Technologies Private Limited in Chandigarh and Mohali, then spent three to four years, until 2018, studying the Vedas, the Puranas, Vedanta, the epics and the Bhagavad Gita. Since 2018 he has worked with a company in Mohali, first as a business consultant and then full time. He married Yukti Sharma on Dussehra in 2024. He credits his father for his mind and his mother, a Hindi teacher, for his creativity, will power and writing. The Five Wounds (2026) is his first published work. The full story: his life, and जीवन परिचय.

Talks and workshops

He leads Neti Neti workshops and talks for companies, colleges and communities, in person across India, in Hindi or English: invite him.

Byline

Manu Vishranti (मनु विश्रांति) · Creator, meditator, writer and researcher · रचनाकार, ध्यान साधक, लेखक और शोधकर्ता

Names

Manu Vishranti (मनु विश्रांति) is the pen name of Manav Sharma (मानव शर्मा). The novels, the saga, the diary and the game carry the pen name; the comic's cover carries his own name.

Manu Vishranti मनु विश्रांति: The pen name. On the novels, the saga, the diary and the game.
Manav Sharma मानव शर्मा: His own name. On the comic's cover, and on Instagram.
The Five Wounds: A series of six volumes, not a single novel.
Untalis Lankayen उनतालीस लंकाएँ: The novel saga in Hindi, in three volumes. In English, Thirty Nine Lankas.
Sapno Wala Jungle सपनों वाला जंगल: Also written Sapnon Wala Jangal.
Neti Neti नेति नेति: Subtitle: एक ध्यान यात्रा.
Lanka Ki Khoj लंका की खोज: The game. Its introduction is at /game/LankaKiKhoj.

Fact sheet

The Five Wounds

Form: Five novels and a companion volume, in English
Publisher: Walnut Publication
Out: 18 September 2026, as six books and as one complete edition, on Amazon and Flipkart
About: One family across thirty years
The Five Wounds: ISBN 978-93-6926-306-6
The Five Wounds (Vol 1): Clean Hands: ISBN 978-93-6926-307-3
The Five Wounds (Vol 2): Peacetime: ISBN 978-93-6926-308-0
The Five Wounds (Vol 3): All the Summers at Once: ISBN 978-93-6926-310-3
The Five Wounds (Vol 4): The House of Auspicious Hours: ISBN 978-93-6926-311-0
The Five Wounds (Vol 5): Dead Letter: ISBN 978-93-6926-312-7
The Five Wounds (A Companion Vol): The Third Woman: The Diary of Nandita Mehra: ISBN 978-93-6926-314-1

Untalis Lankayen (उनतालीस लंकाएँ)

Form: A novel saga in three volumes, in Hindi
Volumes: Panchvan Chehra (पाँचवाँ चेहरा), Pani Par Aag (पानी पर आग), Do Hazar Atthais Lakeeren (दो हज़ार अट्ठाईस लकीरें)
Story: Banaras, 1987; thirty nine years later, at Dhanushkodi, five people step into a game that holds thirty nine tellings of the Sundar Kand
Status: All three volumes written, and being prepared for publication
Built on: The game Lanka Ki Khoj

Sapno Wala Jungle (सपनों वाला जंगल)

Form: A colour comic for children, in Hindi
Pages: 79
Story: A green forest and thirty nights; every night one animal sleeps and an animal from a far corner of the world visits its dream
Animals: Nine forest animals and twenty dream animals
Credit: The cover carries his own name, Manav Sharma (मानव शर्मा)

Neti Neti (नेति नेति)

Form: A meditation diary in four parts, in Hindi
Count: 247 days, 364 verses, 230 of his own lines
Method: Each day sets one of his own notebook lines against one verse from a scripture, and records what survived
Name: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.3.6: not this, not this
Study edition: Five volumes built from the same books

Lanka Ki Khoj (लंका की खोज)

Form: A discovery game on the Sundar Kand, in Hindi, played free in the browser
Play: manuvishranti.com/lanka_ki_khoj
Count: Eight roles, six nights of four watches each, 96 places, 39 tellings of the Ramayana, 108 moments

Photographs

To use a photograph, or anything else from the site beyond short quotes with credit, please ask first: see Copyright and permissions. Credit: Manu Vishranti.