Profile

Dalal is presently the Managing Editor of Moneylife Magazine, which is a personal finance fortnightly. Earlier, she was 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 in the 1990s was Financial Editor of The Times of India.
She is a Founder Trustee of Moneylife Foundation, a not-for-profit which is spearheading the effort to spread financial literacy in India.

Since 2000, Dalal was a serving member of the 'Investor Protection and Education Fund' for six years, this fund was established by the Government of India's Department of Company Affairs. She was a member of the 'Narayana Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance' think tank instituted by the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and was also on SEBI's Primary Market Advisory Committee. She is on Bank of Baroda's services committee and a Trustee of the Consumer Education & Research Centre, Ahmedabad.

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

Padma Shri

Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...

 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

Chartered Accountant

Chartered Accountants were the first accountants to form a professional body, initially established in Britain in 1854. The Edinburgh Society of Accountants , the Glasgow Institute of Accountants and Actuaries and the Aberdeen Society of Accountants were each granted a royal charter almost from...

 by training. As of 2007, The Scam is in its seventh print run and fourth extended edition.

Her more recent book, A. D. Shroff: Titan of Finance and Free Enterprise is a biography of Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff

Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff

Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff was an eminent industrialist, banker and economist of India. In 1944, Shroff served as a non-official delegate at the United Nations "Bretton Woods Conference" on post-war monetary and financial systems...

 commissioned by the 'Forum of Free Enterprise' which Shroff had co-founded in 1956. The book "draws upon the personal papers of A.D. Shroff, the Tata Central Archives

Tata Group

Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...

, the papers and libraries of the Bank of India

Bank of India

Bank of India is a state-owned commercial bank with headquarters in Mumbai. Government-owned since nationalization in 1969, It is India's 4th largest bank, after State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda. It has 3415 branches, including 29 branches outside India...

, HDFC, and several other institutions with which [Shroff] was associated."

Dalal has a bachelor's degree in statistics from Karnatak University

Karnatak University

The Karnatak University established initially at Mumbai in 1949, the location was shifted to Dharwad in October, 1949 and Karnatak University had its official inauguration in March 1950. The campus spans 750 acres . Dr. D. C. Pavate was the vice-chancellor of the university from 1954 to 1967...

 and a bachelor's degree and a Masters degree in law from the University of Mumbai

University of Mumbai

The University of Mumbai , is a state university located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was known as the University of Bombay until 1996 when the city of Bombay was renamed as Mumbai. The affiliated colleges of the university are spread throughout the city of Mumbai and four coastal districts in...

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External links

• Sucheta Dalal's blog