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

1. "Famous Journalists from India".
2. "Official Website — India Against Corruption". www.indiaagainstcorruption.org.in.
3. "ACUNS – Review of "Building Trust in Government"". acuns.org. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014.
4. Lin, Jing; Brantmeier, Edward J.; Bruhn, Christa (30 April 2008). Transforming education for peace. IAP. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-59311-906-5. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
5. "Moneylife India | Financial Magazines online in India". Moneylife NEWS & VIEWS.
6. "Articles by Veeresh malik - Outlook Traveller".
7. "Veeresh Malik Blog". Times of India Blog.
8. "Indian Olympic Association vs Veeresh Malik & Ors. on 7 January, 2010". indiankanoon.org.
9. "The Saga of Sports and Law in India". 13 October 2014.
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11. Palmer, Andrew (15 August 2014). The New Pirates: Modern Global Piracy from Somalia to the South China Sea. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780857725271 – via Google Books.
12. "The very serious business of funny money-I".
13. "Counterfeit currency—the new pandemic".
14. "India against Corruption wants pictures of other freedom fighters on currency notes". The Economic Times.
15. https://dsscic.nic.in/cause-list-report-web/view-decision/1?opt=appCom&commissionname=&file_category=0&fileno=CIC%2FRBIND%2FA%2F2017%2F127956&name=&public_authority=&decisiontypeid=&frdate=09%2F05%2F2022&todate=09%2F05%2F2022&page_length=10&search_button=Submit CIC decision in File number CIC/RBIND/A/2017/127956 on 9 May 2022 in Venkatesh Nayak versus Reserve Bank of India
16. "Veeresh Malik". www.amazon.in.