In 2006, she began to write for Moneylife, a fortnightly magazine on investment started by her husband Debashis Basu.

In 2010, responding to poor financial literacy in India, she and her husband founded Moneylife Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in Mumbai.

[5] Subsequently, in 1984, Sucheta began her career in journalism by landing a job with Fortune India, an investment magazine.

[6] In the early 1990s, Dalal joined the prominent Mumbai based newspaper Times of India as a journalist for their Business and economics wing.

She worked closely with journalists and analysts such as Debashis Basu, Girish Sant, Shantanu Dixit and Pradyumna Kaul.