Sucheta Dalals Belgaum bond

Sucheta Dalal has been a business journalist of high professional repute for the last two decades having worked in Business Standard, The Economic Times and as the Financial Editor of the Times of India. She is not afraid about taking on the big guns. A great example for young journalists!

Ms Sucheta Dalal is an award-winning business journalist and author and her career is founded on many newsbreaks, insightful analysis and high integrity. She has been a journalist for 25 years and was conferred the prestigious Padma Shri for journalism in 2006 and Femina’s Woman of Substance award for her work on the Harshad Mehta scam in 1992 and related writing.

Sucheta did her schooling from St Joseph’s convent school for 3 years and later pre university from RLS College. Her parents stayed in Belgaum for many years until they sold their house in Belgaum after 1996.

She did her BSc. in Statistics from Karnatak College Dharwad, followed up with a graduate and post graduate degree in law (LLB and LLM) from Bombay University. Her journalistic career began in 1984 with Fortune India, an investment magazine. She has subsequently worked with Business Standard and The Economic Times and then went on to become Financial Editor of The Times of India. She has been a columnist and consulting editor for The Indian Express group until 2008. She is now a Consulting Editor for MoneyLIFE a personal finance fortnightly (www.moneylife.in). Her columns are also published by various publications including the Dainik Hindustan.

Sucheta's areas of interest are the capital market, investor related issues, consumer issues and the infrastructure sector. She is well-known for her numerous investigative pieces in all these areas and most notably for breaking the securities scam in 1992 which was India’s biggest financial scandal until then.

She has co-authored a book on the securities scam with her husband Debashis Basu called The Scam: Who Won, Who lost, who got away (1993). This book, which was a best seller that year, has been revised, updated and re-released in 2001 and again in 2005 (It is now called The Scam: From Harshad Mehta to Ketan Parekh). In March 2000, she wrote a biography of A.D.Shroff, who was considered a financial genius in the 1950s. (Published by Viking books of Penguin). Pathbreakers -- a book of 26 inspiring interviews with eminent Indians -- by Sucheta Dalal and Debashis Basu was also released in July 2007.

Ms Dalal takes active interest in consumer and investor related issues. She has been a Member of the Investor Protection and Education Fund set up by the Government of India under the Department of Company Affairs and a member of the Primary Market Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. She is a Trustee of the Consumer Education and Research Centre of Ahmedabad, which is among the largest consumer and investor advocacy groups in India. She is also a Member of Bank of Baroda’s Standing Committee on consumer services and on the board of Credibility Alliance, which is a consortium of voluntary organisations committed towards enhancing accountability and transparency in the voluntary sector through good governance.

Articles written by her on Belgaum:

Politicians should leave Belgaum alone