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Going Public has six sections and 19 chapters but is broadly structured in two parts

Going Public
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Going Public

Samie Modak
This book by the former chairman of the market regulator is an account of the 1976-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer’s eventful six-year tenure (2011-2017) at the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) — rightly described as “police for companies” by his two-and-a-half-year old granddaughter in the book.
 
The book’s catchy title, Going Public (a pun on a private company becoming publicly-traded) raised hopes that U K Sinha would spill the beans on large corporations that were in the news for violations such as insider trading or unauthorised money collection. The book, however, rarely ventures into muddy waters