Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee with 24 years of experience in journalism is Consulting Editor for the Business Standard newspaper, India’s most admired financial daily. His areas of interest include public policy especially regulatory issues on finance and energy.

He is the author of "India’s Coal Story", published by Sage in 2017. The book based on two years of research traces how India’s coal reserves were the lifeline that fuelled the British Empire in Asia. And yet today this industry is on the verge of collapse. The mineral was at the centre of a major political scandal that nearly sent a prime minister to jail. It explores why since Independence, Indian business and government could not settle the rights of energy security, creating the murky politics of coal--& finally forced India to engage in a rivalry with other powers on seas, to secure its energy security.

Subhomoy’s earlier book, “Special Economic Zones in India; Myths and Realities” was published by Anthem Press. He has authored a study on Land Acquisition Act, a project on comparative land prices in India's selected districts and its relation with industrialisation, commissioned by GIZ, India. He has also contributed to other books including the recently published ‘Media at work in China and India’, again published by Sage. His latest paper “Trends in Public Debt in India: Lessons from Greek Crisis”; published in Journal of Development Policy and Practice http://jdp.sagepub.com/

His work for Business Standard can be accessed at:

http://www.businessstandard.com/search?q=subhomoy+bhattacharjee&company-code

Subhomoy has read Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, and also holds a post graduate diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. He had started his career in the Govt of India for several years; having joined through the civil services exam in the Indian Information Service. He has earlier worked with The Economic Times and was till recently Deputy Editor at the Indian Express while writing for Financial Express too.

He is a consultant with Research and Information System for Developing Countries and with Thought Arbitrage Research Institute, New Delhi. He also advises domestic and foreign fund managers besides appearing as an expert commentator on NDTV India, Doordarshan and Rajya Sabha TV on their business news programmes.