About Me

Long-distance runner and trekking fiend.

Also a journalist with 13+ years of experience in reporting, writing and building news strategy in South Asia.

Pallavi has expertise in building long-form and narrative journalistic projects on themes ranging from politics and identity, to wealth and human rights. Her stories have taken her across India but also to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, South Korea, Nepal and – remotely – Pakistan and Afghanistan.

She works in text (both digital and print), documentaries, vertical videos and podcast formats. In the course of her career, she’s also been on the other side of the desk as an editor, commissioning manager and in charge of editorial output and publishing processes.

Her past employers include The Indian Express, The Open, Vice News and Conde Nast International. She’s freelanced for Fortune International, Vox Media, The Established and Newsworthy India. She currently heads editorial operations at ‘Asian Dispatch’, an independent pan-Asia news project.

She is the recipient of Chevening South Asia Journalism Fellowship 2024 and is a member of Oxford Climate Journalism Network (2024).

Among the grants that have fuelled her reporting is the Earth Journalism Network’s Biodiversity Media Initiative Fund (2024) for an investigation on the transnational trafficking of a luxury product made of an endangered animal (WIP); and Round Earth Grant awarded by the International Women’s Media Foundation (2022) to report on Indonesia’s first all-women flogging squad in the country’s only Sharia-regulated province, Aceh.