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]
Books Authored [12]
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]
- ^ "Official Website — India Against Corruption". www.indiaagainstcorruption.org.in.
- ^ [2]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Moneylife India | Financial Magazines online in India". Moneylife NEWS & VIEWS.
- ^ "Articles by Veeresh malik - Outlook Traveller".
- ^ "Veeresh Malik Blog". Times of India Blog.
- ^ "Indian Olympic Association vs Veeresh Malik & Ors. on 7 January, 2010". indiankanoon.org.
- ^ "The Saga of Sports and Law in India". 13 October 2014.
- ^ [3][
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Veeresh Malik". www.amazon.in.