Sucheta Dalal (born 1962) is an Indian

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. She has been a journalist for over two decades and was awarded a

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for journalism in 2006. She was the Financial Editor for the ''

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'' until 1998 when she joined the Indian Express group as a Consulting Editor, leaving in 2008. She is known for exposing the 1992 stock market scam done by Harshad Mehta. In 2006, she began to write for '' Moneylife'', a fortnightly magazine on investment started by her husband Debashis Basu. She is now the

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of ''Moneylife''. In 2010, responding to poor financial literacy in India, she and her husband founded ''Moneylife Foundation'', a not-for-profit organisation based in Mumbai. She is a member of the Investor Education & Protection Fund of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. In 1992, she was honoured with the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons.

Education and career

Sucheta did her schooling at St. Joseph’s Convent School, Belagavi. She then studied B.Sc Statistics at Karnataka College, Dharwad. She is a trained lawyer having gained LL.B and LL.M from

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. Subsequently, in 1984, Sucheta began her career in journalism by landing a job with Fortune India, an investment magazine. Later, she went on to work in news companies like Business Standard and The Economic Times. In the early 1990s, Dalal joined the prominent Mumbai based newspaper ''

'' as a journalist for their Business and economics wing. There she investigated a number of cases that would eventually lead to her prominence in the fields of journalism and activism. These included the Harshad Mehta scam of 1992, the Enron scam, the Industrial Development Bank of India scam, the Ketan Parekh scam in 2001. She worked closely with journalists and analysts such as Debashis Basu, Girish Sant, Shantanu Dixit and Pradyumna Kaul. She later became the Financial editor of ''Times of India''.

Awards and recognition

Sucheta has been conferred the Padma Shri Award, the Chameli Devi Award instituted by the Media Foundation, and Femina’s Woman of Substance Award for her zealous work in journalism. '' Scam 1992'', a docudrama series directed by Hansal Mehta was based on her and Debashis Basu's book ''The Scam''. It was released in October 2020 and Dalal's character was played by Shreya Dhanwanthary.

Select publications

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In popular culture

* Actress Shreya Dhanwanthary played Sucheta Dalal in '' Scam 1992'', a Sony LIV's original series. It was based on her own book ''The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, who Got Away''. * Actress

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has played Meera Rao, a character inspired by Sucheta Dalal in '' The Big Bull'', a 2021 film which is also based on the same book.

References

External links

Sucheta Dalal's blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dalal, Sucheta 1962 births Living people University of Mumbai alumni Indian business and financial journalists Indian Express Limited people Indian newspaper journalists Journalists from Karnataka People from Dharwad district Indian investigative journalists Managing editors Karnatak University alumni Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons winners