Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer-winning author of the bestseller Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, gave Sunday MiD DAY a foretaste of his upcoming Mumbai lecture in an exclusive email interview

His first book not only became a bestseller and garnered critical acclaim, it also won him the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award, among other honours. Critics praised Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World for its command of economic history and engaging, lucid prose.

Ahamed, noted the New York Times, illuminates wise parallels between the misplaced confidence that spawned the Great Depression in the 1930s and the illusory calculations of risk that led to the current financial crisis.



A seasoned professional investment manager, Ahamed is coming to Mumbai in January 2011 for the thirteenth memorial lecture of the Vasant J. Sheth Memorial Foundation. The lecture is an annual event to honour the memory of Vasant J. Sheth, a pioneer of the shipping industry in independent India, who established The Great Eastern Shipping Company in 1947.