Sucheta Dalal

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{{short description|Indian journalist}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sucheta Dalal
| image = The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting the Padma Shri Award – 2006 to Ms. Sucheta Dalal, a well-known business journalist, in New Delhi on March 20, 2006.jpg
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| caption = Dalal receiving [[Padma Shri]] from the President [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]] in 2006
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}}
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[Maharashtra]], India
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[Karnatak College Dharwar|Karnataka College, Dharwad]]|[[University of Mumbai|University of Bombay]]}}
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| occupation = [[Business journalism]]
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| known for = [[1992 Indian stock market scam]]
| notable_works = [[1992 securities scam]]
| spouse = Debashis Basu
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| website = {{URL|moneylife.in}}
| awards = [[Padma Shri]] in 2006
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'''Sucheta Dalal''' (born 1962) is an Indian [[Business journalist|business]] [[journalist]] and [[author]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=62057|title=Sucheta Dalal, Padma Shri|date=27 Jan 2006|work=Express India|access-date=21 May 2015|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322154819/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=62057|archive-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> She has been a journalist for over two decades and was conferred [[Padma Shri]] for journalism in 2006.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>
She was the Financial Editor of the ''[[Times of India]]'' until 1998. She was then a Consulting Editor with the Indian Express group and wrote columns for the Indian Express and Financial Express until 2008.

In 2006, she began to write for ''[[Moneylife]]'', a fortnightly magazine on investment started by her husband Debashis Basu. She is now the Managing Editor of Moneylife magazine. In 2010, responding to the poor financial literacy in India, she and her husband founded Moneylife Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in Mumbai. She has been a member of the Investor Education & Protection Fund of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for six years. In 1992, she was honoured with the [[Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=427441019&capId=20990355&previousCapId=&previousTitle=|title=Sucheta Dalal: Executive Profile & Biography|website=Bloomberg|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref>

==Education and career==

Sucheta did her schooling at St. Joseph’s Convent School, Belagavi.<ref>{{cite news |title=St. Joseph’s Convent School to celebrate 125 years on Friday |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/St.-Joseph%E2%80%99s-Convent-School-to-celebrate-125-years-on-Friday/article14011851.ece |work=The Hindu |date=21 January 2016 |language=en-IN}}</ref> She then studied B.Sc Statistics at [[Karnatak College Dharwar|Karnataka College, Dharwad]]. She is a trained lawyer having gained [[Bachelor of Laws|LL.B]] and [[Master of Laws|LL.M]] from [[Bombay University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sucheta Dalal|url=http://www.suchetadalal.com/?id=22554eaf-9c12-1f58-488d55be5cca&base=topbar|access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref>

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. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mehrotra|first=Kriti|date=2020-11-11|title=Sucheta Dalal Now: Where Is Journalist Who Broke Harshad Mehta Story Today?|url=https://www.thecinemaholic.com/where-is-sucheta-dalal-now/|access-date=2020-11-23|website=The Cinemaholic|language=en-US}}</ref>
In the early 1990s, Dalal joined the prominent Mumbai based newspaper ''[[Times of India]]'' 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 [[1992 Indian stock market scam|Harshad Mehta scam of 1992]], the [[Enron scandal|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''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Girish Sant memorial lecture 2015|url=http://www.prayaspune.org/peg/annual-lectures/80-girish-sant-memorial-annual-lecture-2015.html|publisher=[[Prayas (Energy Group)]]|access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
Sucheta has been conferred the [[Padma Shri|Padma Shri Award]], the [[Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons|Chameli Devi Award]] instituted by the Media Foundation, and [[Femina (India)|Femina]]’s Woman of Substance Award for her zealous work in journalism. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mehrotra|first=Kriti|date=2020-11-11|title=Sucheta Dalal Now: Where Is Journalist Who Broke Harshad Mehta Story Today?|url=https://www.thecinemaholic.com/where-is-sucheta-dalal-now/|access-date=2020-11-23|website=The Cinemaholic|language=en-US}}</ref>

''[[Scam 1992]]'', a docudrama directed series by [[Hansal Mehta]] was based on her and Debasis Basu's book ''[[The Scam (book)|The Scam]]''. It was released in October 2020 and Dalal's character was played by [[Shreya Dhanwanthary]].

== Select publications ==
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;Books
* {{citation|last1=Debasis|first1=Basu|last2=Dalal|first2=Sucheta|title=The Scam: Who Won, who Lost, who Got Away|year=1992|publisher=South Asia Books|location=Mumbai|isbn=81-85944-10-5}}
* {{citation|last=Dalal|first=Sucheta|title=A. D. Shroff: Titan of Finance and Free Enterprise|year=2000|publisher=Viking|location=New Delhi|isbn=0-670-89336-6}}
* {{citation|last1=Debasis|first1=Basu|last2=Dalal|first2=Sucheta|title=Absolute Power - Inside story of the National Stock Exchange’s amazing success, leading to hubris, regulatory capture and algo scam |year=2021|publisher=Kensource Information Services LLP|location=Mumbai|isbn=81-95190-73-1}}
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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 [[Ileana D'Cruz]] 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Roy|first=Priyanka|date=10 April 2021|title=The Big Bull romanticises a criminal in a half-baked story|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/the-big-bull-romanticises-a-criminal-in-a-half-baked-story-riddled-with-patchy-writing-and-dodgy-cgi/cid/1812085|access-date=2021-04-14|website=Telegraph India}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.suchetadalal.com/ Sucheta Dalal's blog]

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[[Category:1962 births]]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education]]
[[Category:University of Mumbai alumni]]
[[Category:Indian business and financial journalists]]
[[Category:Indian Express Limited people]]
[[Category:Indian newspaper journalists]]
[[Category:Journalists from Karnataka]]
[[Category:People from Dharwad district]]
[[Category:Indian investigative journalists]]

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