Pallavi Singh

{{Short description|UK based Indian writer, journalist and business historian}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}

Pallavi Padma-Uday,{{cite web | url=https://humag.co/prose/puberty | website=the honest ulsterman | date=October 2022 | last=Padma-Uday | first=Pallavi | title=Puberty}} is a writer and business historian based in the UK.{{cite web | website=Muck Rack | url=https://muckrack.com/econhistorienne | title=Pallavi Singh}} Her debut poetry collection Orisons in the Dark was published by Writers Workshop in April 2023.{{cite web | website=Writers Workshop | title=Orisons in the Dark | date=April 2023 | url=https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/orisons-in-the-dark/}}{{cite web | website=ABPLive | title=Book Excerpt: ‘Orisons In The Dark’ — Confrontation Of Patriarchy And Indomitable Spirit Of Women | date=24 May 2023 | url=https://news.abplive.com/books/book-excerpt-orisons-in-the-dark-by-pallavi-padma-uday-powerful-exploration-of-patriarchy-and-resilience-of-women-1604253}}{{cite web | website=BooksPaperScissors | title=Orisons In The Dark | date=May 2023 | url=https://bookspaperscissors.co.uk/products/orisons-in-the-dark-pallavi-parma-uday?fbclid=IwAR2cV6akYp9FSj9s0E0dGehzEmAY73B7i-uot8-4nLnyBqLCmSztEZic6as}}{{cite web | website=NoAlibis | title=Orisons In The Dark | date=June 2023 | url=https://noalibis.com/product/orisons-in-the-dark-by-pallavi-padma-uday/}}{{cite web | website=NoAlibis | title=Lola in Belfast| date=June 2023 | url=https://noalibis.com/product/lola-in-belfast-by-pallavi-padma-uday/}} Quoting from her debut book, a leading SAGE journal noted that Padma-Uday 'remains acutely conscious of the presence of patriarchy and women’s position in it — “I have changed countries, continents apart…the fries and salmons and prawns, all affirm/ how some things may never change,/ like men and their love for food,/ the

eagerness of women cooking for them.”'{{cite web | website=Literature, Critique and Empire Today| title=India | date=2024 | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/30333962241288436}}

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."{{cite web | website=News9Live | title=Poetry is both a tool to protest and heal for Pallavi Padma-Uday | date=19 May 2023 | url=https://www.news9live.com/art-culture/books/poetry-is-both-a-tool-to-protest-and-heal-for-pallavi-padma-uday-2147475}}Padma-Uday's poems take within their sweep themes such as feminism and freedom, modernity and liberalisation without selling any romantised version of the world. Reading her poems is like meeting a woman of today, senior journalist Panini Anand wrote in his review of 'Orisons of the Dark'.{{cite web | website=TV9 Hindi | title=नारी चेतना और बोध से प्रेरित सरल कथानकों वाली कवयित्री हैं पल्लवी | date=June 5, 2023 | url=https://www.tv9hindi.com/knowledge/book-review-orisons-in-the-dark-poetess-pallavi-padma-uday-women-consciousness-and-awareness-poems-1903087.html}}

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.{{cite web | website=Cúirt | title=Breaking Ground Ireland | date=6 January 2022 | url=https://www.cuirt.ie/breaking-ground-ireland/}}{{cite web | website=Cúirt | title=Breaking Ground Ireland (pdf) | url=https://www.cuirt.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/BREAKING-GROUND-IRELAND-online-2.pdf}} Punch Magazine featured her as one of the 40 poets from India in its annual poetry issue in 2022 and 2023.{{cite magazine | magazine=the punch magazine | title=Pallavi Padma-Uday | url=https://thepunchmagazine.com/author/pallavi-padma-uday}} She was one of the seven awardees for the prestigious Cill Rialaig Residency for the year 2023.{{cite web | website=Irish Writers Centre |

title=Cill Rialaig Residency Awardees 2023| date=August 2023 | url=https://irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-our-cill-rialaig-residencies-awardees-2023/}} 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'.{{cite web | website=Newry.ie | title=Paul Muldoon headlines Rostrevor Literary Festival 2023| date=24 October 2023 | url=https://www.newry.ie/arts-and-entertainment/paul-muldoon-headlines-rostrevor-literary-festival-2023/}} In May 2024, her second poetry collection 'Lola in Belfast' was published.{{cite web | website=Writers Workshop | title=Lola in Belfast| date=May 2024 | url=https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/lola-in-belfast/}}{{cite web | website=Scroll | title=Dear Adam, this night is for us’: Five poems from Pallavi Padma-Uday’s new book of poetry| date=December 6, 2024 | url=https://scroll.in/article/1076354/dear-adam-this-night-is-for-us-five-poems-from-pallavi-padma-udays-new-book-of-poetry}}{{cite web | website=The Hindu| title=The joy, and pain, of being small

| date=November 29, 2024 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/book-publisher-english-literature-india/article68909597.ece}} The book was launched at Belfast Book Festival 2024 with eminent Irish author Catherine Dunne (writer).{{cite web | website=belfastbookfestival.com | title=Belfast Book Festival 2024| date=April 2024 | url=https://belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/motherhood-love--identity-pallavi-padmauday-and-catherine-dunne}} A review of 'Lola in Belfast' by leading news website Scroll noted: 'The poems are often sad, but always poignant. The registers in this collection are so varied that you read it like a novel, not able to put it down. Padma-Uday’s poetic magnetism is not rooted in the selection of metaphors or imagery, but in the voice that takes you in, embraces you and offers a hand,'{{cite web | website=Scroll| title=‘Lola in Belfast’: Pallavi Padma-Uday’s poems connect her authentic roots with the new world | date=2025 | url=https://scroll.in/article/1078546/lola-in-belfast-pallavi-padma-udays-poems-connects-her-authentic-roots-with-the-new-world}}