Pallavi Singh

Pallavi Padma-Uday, also known as Pallavi Singh, is a writer, memoirist, essayist and business historian. Her debut book of poetry 'Orisons in the Dark' was published by Writers Workshop in April 2023.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} Irish poet and novelist Csilla Toldy, writing about her poetry, wrote that Padma-Uday "transforms life experience into poetry comparably to the great American woman poet, Elizabeth Bishop, with the same unflinching view on life."^[7][8] Her second poetry collection Lola in Belfast was launched at Belfast Book Festival 2024 with eminent Irish author Catherine Dunne (writer).^[9][10]

Education

She studied for her post-graduate degree in economic history as an LSE-India scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and trained to be a journalist at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India.^[11]

Professional Life

As a business historian, Pallavi studies the long run evolution of business groups in modern India.^{[12][13][14][15]} Previously, she led Content Marketing, Communications and Digital Audience Engagement for two News Corp startups in New Delhi, India. She began her career as a full-time journalist reporting from South Asia on political economy, business and enterprise with leading newspapers such as Hindustan Times, The Indian Express and Mint.^[16][13]

Literature

Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals including The Poetry Ireland's Trumpet, The Aleph Review, The Honest Ulsterman,^[17] Abridged and The Galway Review, Muse India, Madras Courier, and Punch Magazine, besides earning critical reviews in academic journals and national news media such as Scroll, ABP News, and TV9.^{[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]} Several Irish anthologies have carried her poems.^[25] Padma-Uday's books have been added as part of the National Library of Ireland's collections.^[26] Her writing has been supported by leading arts and culture organisations in the UK and Ireland. In 2022, she was chosen for the prestigious mentoring programme with the Doire Press in Ireland to work with celebrated poet Nandi Jola.^[27][28] Among other honours, she earned a professional membership of the Irish Writers Centre in 2024,^[29] and read from her work for the Northern Soul Roadshow in February 2024 with a host of accomplished writers such as Dawn Watson, Bernie McGill and Maria Fusco, with the event culminating in a session with booker winning author Anna Burns.^[30]In 2022, she was featured as one of the artists in 'Breaking Ground Ireland', a landmark project of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature and National University of Ireland Galway.^[31][32] Punch Magazine featured her as one of the 40 poets from India in its annual poetry issue in 2022 and 2023.^[33] She was one of the seven awardees for the prestigious Cill Rialaig Residency for the year 2023.^[34] In November 2023, she was invited to be one of the speakers at Rostrevor Literary festival, where she launched her debut collection 'Orisons in the dark'.^[35] In May 2024, her second poetry collection 'Lola in Belfast' was published.^[36][37][38]

Bibliography

• May 2024: Lola in Belfast , Writers Workshop. ISBN 978-81-968192-1-7
• April 2023: Orisons in the Dark, Writers Workshop. ISBN 978-81-961291-1-8)

Featured in

• Trumpet. Dublin: Poetry Ireland, 2025
• Measure. Belfast: Poetry in Motion Anthology, 2025
• Simmerman. Belast: Abridged, 2025
• The Hawakal Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2022. New Delhi: Hawakal Publishers, 2022, ISBN 978-8196006594
• New World New Voices. Belfast: Ulster University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1-3999-2992-9
• Threshold. Belfast: Poetry in Motion Anthology, 2021, ISBN 978-9353575908