Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an award-winning author and columnist, and a keen student of the Indian banking sector for close to three decades. His weekly column `Banker's Trust' is widely read for its incisive analysis and informed opinion.
He is currently Consulting Editor with Business Standard and Senior Adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd.
One of the key members of the team that set up the financial daily Mint, Tamal was an adviser on strategy at Bandhan Bank Ltd, the first microfinance company to transform itself into a universal bank in India.
His book Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy has bagged the Tata Literature Live Best Business Book Award, KLF Best Business Book Award and Skoch Literature Award.
This book, like his other six books -- Roller Coaster: An Affair With Banking, HDFC Bank 2.0: From Dawn to Digital, A Bank for The Buck, Sahara: The Untold Story', Bandhan: The Making of a Bank and From Lehman to Demonetization: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and Misadventures are all nonfiction bestsellers.
Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga, the third part of Hansal Mehta’s ‘Scam’ series is being made, based on his book Sahara: The Untold Story.
Tamal won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism for commentary and interpretative writing in 2017.
He is one of the contributors to the Oxford Handbook on Indian Economy, edited by Kaushik Basu, and Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government, edited by Bibek Debroy.
Global professional network Linkedin nominated him as one of the most influential voices in India in 2019, 2018 and 2017 and one of the top 10 writers in finance globally for 2016 and 2015.
