Tamal Bandyopadhyay | |
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| Born | (1961-03-18)18 March 1961 (age 64) Midnapur,West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
| Occupations | Journalist, writer, columnist |
| Notable credit | Banker's Trust |
| Spouse | Rita Bandyopadhyay |
| Children | Sujan Bandyopadhyay |
Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Indian business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance Banker's Trust published inBusiness Standard,[1] a leading Indian business daily. He had started this column inMint, an Indian business daily byHT Media Ltd.
He has authored seven books namelyHDFC 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 andA Bank for the Buck,[5] Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy,[1] Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking.[3]Bandhan: The Making of a Bank has been translated into Bengali.
A student of English literature (a postgraduate fromCalcutta University), Tamal Bandyopadhyay began his career in journalism as a trainee journalist withTimes of India, inMumbai 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 ofMint 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 ofBusiness Standard,[6] a business daily where he served as deputy resident editor in Mumbai before joiningMint.
He is also a senior adviser toJana Small Finance Bank[6] Before this stint, he was an adviser atBandhan Bank from August 2014.
Bandyopadhyay has been writing his weekly columnBanker'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]
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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, theSahara India Pariwar, movedCalcutta High Court, got a stay on the publication of the book and filed a ₹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 toThe Oxford Companion to Economics in India[10] andMaking of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government.
LinkedIn nominated Tamal Bandyopadhyay for three successive years (2015, 2016 and 2017) as one of thetop voices in finance. In 2018, he was nominated as one of the top 25 voices in India across sectors.[11]
He is a recipient ofRamnath 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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