Sucheta Dalal

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

— Sucheta Dalal

Consumers have to become an appropriately strong and vocal lobby capable of embarrassing the political establishment.

— Sucheta Dalal

I do know that lifting from the Net is rampant, journalists do it, students are bound to do it and obviously a…

— Sucheta Dalal

Mumbai is on a seismically sensitive zone; it is also dangerously exposed to the sea.

— Sucheta Dalal

It is worth asking if advertisements are ever an effective counter against negative publicity. International experience shows that it depends on the…

— Sucheta Dalal

Indias rapid economic growth has mainly been due to the dismantling of government controls. An attempt to reintroduce monopolistic pricing must be…

— Sucheta Dalal

From toothpastes to crayons, instant noodles, chocolates and energy drinks, corporate India is now promoting these in schoolrooms.

— Sucheta Dalal

By creating a minority quota in lending the government is clearly playing politics and wants to fatten its vote banks, whether or…

— Sucheta Dalal

Secured debentures of the non-convertible variety were the rage in the mid-1980s, but their glamour ended on their maturity when it became…

— Sucheta Dalal

Security concerns are especially high with regard to the e-filing of Income Tax returns that is rapidly being extended from commercial entities…

— Sucheta Dalal

If you are a small investor, do take the basic precaution of going to a registered broker/sub-broker and getting receipts for your…

— Sucheta Dalal

Bloomberg does not cater to the Indian audience. It does display Indian stock indices, and during trading hours has a ticker tape…

— Sucheta Dalal

When dozens of company results are flooding newspaper offices everyday, an occasional fraudster slips in what looks like an authentic press release,…

— Sucheta Dalal

It is true that Indian Airlines often behaves exactly like the government does. It is stingy with information, designates junior officials to…

— Sucheta Dalal

We are neither prepared to deal with dubious companies nor have the mechanism for swift investigation. What's more we don't even have…

— Sucheta Dalal

We do not have to sit back and suffer the consequences of corrupt government deals and inefficiency, but unless a large number…

— Sucheta Dalal

Every one of us encounters, tolerates and often participates in the most blatant corruption in every aspect of our everyday existence -…

— Sucheta Dalal

I have missed meetings because a Speed Post from a government office reached after the meeting. But these are rare blips in…

— Sucheta Dalal

I am not knocking the Net as a research tool. It is the best, and obviously, life has never been better for…

— Sucheta Dalal

Netizens and site operators must find ways to police themselves in order to keep government interference to a minimum.

— Sucheta Dalal

India needs fresh thinking and quick decision-making to get out of the stifling bind of its galloping population and deadly poverty.

— Sucheta Dalal

Putting an end to usurious rates is not going to be as simple as asking banks to lay down internal guidelines, policies…

— Sucheta Dalal

The truth is that development of public transport facilities needs government funding or cheap loans.

— Sucheta Dalal

While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for…

— Sucheta Dalal

The savvy investor is one who does not believe every rumor on the street and learns to read between the lines of…

— Sucheta Dalal

Sachin Tendulkar is undoubtedly India's biggest national icon. Being the object of a billion people's adoration is a tough job.

— Sucheta Dalal

It is an open secret that customs officers pay millions in bribes to secure the lucrative posting in the airport, cargo terminals…

— Sucheta Dalal

Driving to work is a nightmare in most Indian cities; people do it because they have little choice.

— Sucheta Dalal

India is no stranger to crises - wars, hijackings, plane crashes - we have seen them all.

— Sucheta Dalal

Although television and newspapers have played the biggest role in hyping up the World Cup, they are at the lowest end of…

— Sucheta Dalal

Being an office bearer of a housing society is a thankless job that everyone wants to shirk.

— Sucheta Dalal

The message for the smart investor is to watch out. Do not get carried away with news reports and turn smart by…

— Sucheta Dalal

India has no shortage of deserving causes or good leaders; there is only short supply of activists and people who are willing…

— Sucheta Dalal

If e-wallet providers are unregulated, dubious operators will easily manage to avoid audit trails and electronic finger-prints.

— Sucheta Dalal

Everybody loves to receive gifts and free goodies, and often parents are loath to look out for hidden strings attached to corporate…

— Sucheta Dalal

The ambitious women usually work twice as hard to make up the handicap of being usually left out of the chummy male…

— Sucheta Dalal

Look around you and you see plenty of prosperous businessmen splurging money like there was no tomorrow but paying no taxes.

— Sucheta Dalal

A variety of list builders, universities and non-governmental orgainsations are focussing attention on the accuracy and reliability of information on Web sites.

— Sucheta Dalal

Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.

— Sucheta Dalal

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted…

— Sucheta Dalal