Veeresh Malik

Veeresh Malik is an Indian author, syndicated columnist[1] and social worker. He is a Co-convenor and co-founder of the India Against Corruption anti-corruption movement.[2][3] He writes a column for Chowk.com,[4] Moneylife.[5] Outlook India[6] and Times of India[7]

Achievements

1. Malik co-founded the India Against Corruption anti-corruption movement in 2007.

2. Malik is a leading RTI activist of India who helped in defining the scope of the Right to Information Act with the pathbreaking judgment in his case Indian Olympic Association vs Veeresh Malik & Ors. on 7 January 2010 [8] "which confirmed that the IOC and the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee were public authorities for the purposes of the meaning of Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005".[9][10]

3. A former mariner, Malik is an expert on piracy.[11]

4. Mr Veeresh Malik is an expert on counterfeit currency.[12][13] From May 2014 he along with another associate began filing numerous (over 190) representations to India's financial authorities to "demonetise" India's much counterfeited Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 currency notes.[14] The Bank finally acted on India Against Corruption's representations in Nov of 2016.[15]

Books Authored [16]

1. Train to Pakistan - 2004

2. Just an Indian - the Man who Will not Bribe

3. Train to Goa

4. Essays on Pakistan from an Indian Point of View

5. Nirmal Hoon, Buccaneer of Turner Morrison: Life and times of the man who would not give up

6. Turbulence - my life in the Indian Merchant Navy Redux: Going out to sea?

7. BONDA! The 007 of dogs!!: Live and let live-dogs and humans

8. India's Online Public Grievance Mechanism: Case Studies 2013

References


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