“Advertisers with their bag of goodies and promotions have entered classrooms and begun to put up billboards and posters inside schools. They persuade cash-starved schools into opening their doors to them by paying for access to classrooms and space for their advertising material and promotions.”

Indian business journalist and author

Sucheta Dalal is an Indian business journalist and author. She has worked in journalism for more than two decades, and in 2006 she received the Padma Shri for journalism. She served as Financial Editor at the Times of India until 1998, then joined the Indian Express group as Consulting Editor and left in 2008. She is best known for exposing the 1992 stock market scam involving Harshad Mehta, work that made her a familiar name in Indian financial reporting.