Dr. Pallavi Padma-Uday is a business, economic and financial historian, with a particular focus on how caste, kinship, and community networks shape the organisation of firms and finance in South Asia.

Before academia, she spent nearly a decade reporting on business, political economy, and globalisation in South Asia as a full-time long form and enterprise writer with leading national newspapers. She also built and led audience engagement teams for digital businesses and financial news media owned by News Corp in India. Continuing to write across genres — from historical analysis to long-form narratives and literature, Padma-Uday is especially interested in how economic ideas circulate in public life.

A professional member of the Irish Writers Centre, she is an awardee of the national Evolution Programme for 2025-26 and was shortlisted for Arts Council Ireland’s prestigious Literature Bursary Award in 2024.

She moves between Dublin-Belfast-London, Épernay and New Delhi.

contact: p.singh24@alumni.lse.ac.uk