Sucheta Dalal

Sucheta Dalal is an investigative business journalist best known for exposing the Harshad Mehta securities scam in 1992. She has held senior editorial positions at leading Indian newspapers and was awarded the Padma Shri in 2006 for her contribution to journalism. With Debashis Basu, she co-authored The Scam: From Harshad Mehta to Ketan Parekh, later adapted as the acclaimed web series Scam 1992, and Absolute Power, on the National Stock Exchange’s co-location scandal. She also wrote A.D. Shroff: Titan of Finance and Free Enterprise. She is managing editor of Moneylife, founder-trustee of Moneylife Foundation, and has served on several SEBI committees.