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

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 "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".

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

4. Mr Veeresh Malik is an expert on counterfeit currency. 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. The Bank finally acted on India Against Corruption's representations in Nov of 2016.

Books Authored

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.


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