Krishna Udayasankar

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Dr.

Krishna Udayasankar
Born
Bangalore, India
OccupationAuthor, academic
LanguageEnglish
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipSingapore
Alma materNational Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore
Genre Mythopoeia, Historical fiction, Poetry
Years active2012-present
Notable worksGovinda, Kurukshetra, 3
Website
Krishna Udayasankar

Dr. Krishna Udayasankar is an Indian author of fiction and an academic. She writes mytho-historical fiction and poetry. [1] [2]

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Personal life and education

A graduate of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, Krishna holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Nanyang Business School, Singapore and has published two textbooks: International Business: An Asian Perspective (2015) and Global Business Today (2014). [3] Her book Beast (2019), an urban fantasy thriller is published by Penguin Random House, who have also taken over the rights for her entire backlist of five novels. In a session at the Bangalore Literary Festival in 2018, Udayasankar spoke of how she started writing fiction entirely by accident, and that her first work, The Aryavarta Chronicles, started out as a satirical poem. [4]

Academic Career

Udayasankar has held academic appointments at major Singaporean universities, including Nanyang Business School (2009–2016) and the National University of Singapore (2005–2009). [5] [6] Her research examines corporate governance, the business–government–society nexus, and corporate social responsibility.

She is co-author of the Asian editions of International Business and Global Business Today (McGraw-Hill Asia), and her articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics and Corporate Governance: An International Review. [7]  Her research and conference papers have won multiple awards from the Academy of Management and other scholarly bodies. Her single-author paper, Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Size, published in the Journal of Business Ethics in 2008 has over 1000 citations to date. [8]

Writing Career

Udayasankar's fiction re-imagines mythology through a contemporary lens, and is the author of the Aryavarta Chronicles trilogy, consisting of Govinda (2012), Kaurava (2014), and Kurukshetra (2015).[ citation needed ]

Her standalone works include Immortal (2016), a time-spanning thriller; Beast (2019), an urban fantasy; 3 (2015), based on the founding legend of Singapore; The Cowherd Prince (2020), a prequel to Govinda; and Objects of Affection (2013), a collection of prose-poems.  Her writing has been praised for blending philosophical depth with narrative pace, and for exploring the human dimensions of epic and legend.

Books

References

  1. ↑ "Wayback Machine". www.penguin.co.in. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Home; About; Contact; Home; About; Contact; Home; About; Contact. "Krishna Udayasankar / Bio". prose.sg. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "Blurb for 3". Ethos Books.
  4. ↑ "BLF Live, BLF 2018 Reports". Bangalore Literary Festival.
  5. ↑ "National Law School of India University -". National Law School of India University. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "Home". Corporate NTU. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "Corporate Governance: An International Review". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  8. ↑ Udayasankar, Krishna (1 December 2008). "Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Size". Journal of Business Ethics. 83 (2): 167–175. doi:10.1007/s10551-007-9609-8. ISSN   1573-0697.
  9. ↑ "Beast". Penguin India.
  10. ↑ Shetty, Deepika (29 January 2016). "Penguin signs Singapore based author". Straits Times. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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