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

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'', an Indian business daily by

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

Life and career

A student of English literature (a postgraduate from

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), Tamal Bandyopadhyay began his career in journalism as a trainee journalist with ''

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'', in

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in 1985. Subsequently, he has worked with four national financial dailies: ''

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'', '' Financial Express'', ''

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'', and as a member of the founding team of ''

'' 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 ''

'', a business daily where he served as deputy resident editor in Mumbai before joining ''

''. He is also a senior adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank Before this stint, he was an adviser at

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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.

Bibliography

* * ''Anupam Meenrashi'' (2014) * * ''Bandhan: The Making of a Bank'' (2016) * *HDFC Bank 2.0: From Dawn to Digital Bandyopadhyay's second book, ''Sahara: The Untold Story'', details the beginnings and the current day working of the secretive Sahara India Parivar. In December 2013, the

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, 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. 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". Tamal Bandyopadhyay is also a contributor to ''The Oxford Companion to Economics in India'' and ''Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government.''

Awards and recognition

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nominated Tamal Bandyopadhyay for three successive years (2015, 2016 and 2017) as one of th
top voices
in finance. In 2018, he was nominated as one of the top 25 voices in India across sectors. He is a recipient of Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for commentary and interpretative writing for the year 2016. 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.

References

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