“India is a little different from the developed world because discipline of any kind is alien to us. Along with the right to spit in public, we will resist all attempts to discipline our driving. As pedestrians, we will cross any road at will, and as cops, we will view traffic offences as business opportunities.”

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.