Phadnis graduated from the
Miranda House from the
University of Delhi. She was the president of Students' Union for the year 1982–83. She started her career in journalism from 1983 after graduating. Phadnis worked with various newspaper and magazine publishers like
The Independent,
The Indian Post and
Newstime. Later she worked for the news magazine
Sunday. , since 2000, she has been working with
Business Standard. She was a Jefferson Fellow at the
East–West Center in the year 2006. She is the winner of the
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the year 2008–2009 in the Political Reporting (Print) category. She shared this award with Pranab Dhal Samanta of
The Indian Express.
Works •
Political Profiles of Cabals and Kings, Business Standard Books, 2009. ==References==