Tamal Bandyopadhyay

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Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Born18 March 1961
Midnapur, West Bengal, India
Alma mater University of Calcutta
OccupationJournalist, writer, columnist
Notable creditBanker's Trust
SpouseRita Bandyopadhyay
ChildrenSujan Bandyopadhyay

Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Indian business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance Banker's Trust published in Business Standard, [1] a leading Indian business daily. He had started this column in Mint , an Indian business daily by HT Media Ltd.

Contents

He has authored five books namely HDFC Bank 2.0: From Dawn to Digital [2] , From Lehman to Demonetization: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and Misadventures, [3] Bandhan: The Making of a Bank, [4] Sahara: The Untold Story and A Bank for the Buck. [5] Bandhan : The Making of a Bank has been translated into Bengali.

Life and career

A student of English literature (a postgraduate from Calcutta University), Tamal Bandyopadhyay began his career in journalism as a trainee journalist with Times of India , in Mumbai in 1985. Subsequently, he has worked with four national financial dailies: The Economic Times , Financial Express , Business Standard , and as a member of the founding team of Mint in February 2007, going on to serve as its deputy managing editor and later as a consulting editor till September 2018. Currently he is a consulting editor of Business Standard , [6] a business daily where he served as deputy resident editor in Mumbai before joining Mint .

He is also a senior adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank [6] Before this stint, he was an adviser at Bandhan Bank from August 2014.

Bandyopadhyay has been writing his weekly column Banker's Trust since February 2007. Between April and November 2011, he ran a 32-episode series on Bloomberg India TV, also called Banker's Trust, where senior central bankers, commercial bankers, and economists were interviewed every week.[ citation needed ]

Bibliography

Bandyopadhyay's second book, Sahara: The Untold Story, details the beginnings and the current day working of the secretive Sahara India Parivar. [7] In December 2013, the Sahara India Pariwar, moved Calcutta High Court, got a stay on the publication of the book and filed a Rs 2  billion defamation suit against the author and its publisher, Jaico Publishing House. [8] In April 2014, the parties reached an out of court settlement, following which the book carries a disclaimer by Sahara which says, among other things, the book has "defamatory content". [9]

Tamal Bandyopadhyay is also a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Economics in India [10] and Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government.

Awards and recognition

LinkedIn nominated Tamal Bandyopadhyay for three successive years (2015, 2016 and 2017) as one of the top voices in finance. In 2018, he was nominated as one of the top 25 voices in India across sectors. [11]

He is a recipient of Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for commentary and interpretative writing for the year 2016. [12]

In 2021, his book Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy won the Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Award. It also won the Best Business Book Award at the Kalinga Literary Festival and was acknowledged at the Skoch Literature Award 2021. [13] [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Business Standard
  2. ↑ "Hdfc Bank 2.0: No Stereotypes Here- Business News". www.businesstoday.in. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "That dreaded word: Resign - Livemint".
  4. ↑ "Bandhan: The Making of a Bank highlights Chandra Shekhar Ghosh's focus, vision". forbesindia.com.
  5. ↑ "An Indian Bank's Success Story – India Real Time – WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Business Standard's consulting editor in LinkedIn Top Voices in India list". Business Standard India. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  7. ↑ Bandyopadhyay, Tamal. "Excerpt from the book "Sahara: The Untold Story"". businesstoday.intoday.in. Jaico Publishers. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Sahara slaps Rs. 200-crore libel suit against Mint scribe for 'untold story'". Hindustan Times. 13 January 2014. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "Sahara withdraws case against 'Mint' journalist's book". Livemint. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "The Oxford Companion to Economics in India".
  11. ↑ "LinkedIn Top Voices 2018: India". linkedin.com.
  12. ↑ "Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards: Full list of winners". indianexpress.com.
  13. ↑ "Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards for 2021 announced". Business Standard. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  14. ↑ "BS Columnist Tamal Bandyopadhyay wins KLF book award for 'Pandemonium". Business Standard. 10 September 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
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