Sucheta Dalal
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Sucheta Dalal (born 1962) is a finance journalist from Mumbai, India.
[edit] Profile
Dalal is presently a columnist for the Indian Express and consulting editor for The Financial Express. She has previously written for the Business Standard and The Economic Times, and was for some time editor of the financial section of The Times of India.
Since 2000, Dalal is a serving member of the 'Investor Protection and Education Fund' established by the Government of India's Department of Company Affairs. She is also a member of the 'Narayana Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance' think tank instituted by the Securities & Exchange Board of India.
In 1992, Dalal was awarded the Femina Woman of Substance award. The same year, the Media Foundation awarded her the Chameli Devi Award for excellence in journalism. In 2006, Dalal was awarded the Government of India's prestigious Padma Shri[1] in recognition of her journalistic contributions.
Dalal is the co-author of The Scam: Who Won, who Lost, who Got Away, which investigates the role of several figures in the April 1992 crash of the Indian Stock Exchange. The book was written together with her (now) husband, Debasis Basu, who is also a journalist by profession but a Chartered Accountant by training. As of 2007, The Scam is in its fourth (extended) edition.
Her more recent book, A. D. Shroff: Titan of Finance and Free Enterprise is a biography of Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff commissioned by the 'Forum of Free Enterprise'[2] which Shroff had co-founded in 1956. The book "draws upon the personal papers of A.D. Shroff, the Tata Central Archives, the papers and libraries of the Bank of India, HDFC, and several other institutions with which [Shroff] was associated."[3]
Dalal has a bachelor's degree in science from Karnatak University and a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Mumbai.
[edit] Select publications
- Books
- Debasis, Basu & Dalal, Sucheta (1993), The Scam: Who Won, who Lost, who Got Away, Mumbai: South Asia Books, ISBN 81-85944-10-5
- Dalal, Sucheta (2000), A. D. Shroff: Titan of Finance and Free Enterprise, New Delhi: Viking, ISBN 0-670-89336-6
- Newspaper columns
- Dalal, Sucheta (1999-2008), Different Strokes, Indian Express columns, Mumbai: SuchetaDalal.com, <http://www.suchetadalal.com/articles/display/76/>
- Dalal, Sucheta (2001-2008), Cheques and Balances, Indian Express columns, Mumbai: SuchetaDalal.com, <http://www.suchetadalal.com/articles/display/80/>
- Dalal, Sucheta (2002-2008), The Rediff columns, Mumbai: SuchetaDalal.com, <http://www.suchetadalal.com/articles/display/1/>
[edit] References
- ^ ENS Economic Bureau (2006-01-27), “Sucheta Dalal, Padma Shri”, The Indian Express (Mumbai: ExpressIndia.com), <http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=62057>
- ^ Dalal, Sucheta (2000-07-26), Dhirubhai Ambani and the stories that need telling, Mumbai: rediff.com, para. 5, <http://www.rediff.com/money/2000/jul/26dalal.htm>
- ^ Dalal, Sucheta (2000), A. D. Shroff: Titan of Finance & Free Enterprise (Book synposis), Mumbai: SuchetaDalal.com, <http://www.suchetadalal.com/ecommerce/product.tcl?usca_p=t&product_id=1>.
