Veeresh Malik is an Indian

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. He is a Co-convenor and co-founder of the

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movement. He writes a column for Chowk.com, Moneylife.

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Achievements

1. Malik co-founded the

movement in 2007. 2. Malik is a leading RTI activist of India who helped in defining the scope of the

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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

'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

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