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Veeresh Malik

Veeresh Malik lives in New Delhi & Pune. His parents were from Jhung, now in Pakistan. School education all over India, a career in the Merchant Navy which he left in 1983, qualifications in ship-broking and chartering, an ongoing shipping business, a love for rallying and driving, and an active participation in print and electronic media as an alternate core competency, all these and more.

Veeresh started his media-phase in life with a regular freewheeling Sunday column in The Asian Age (Diary of a Divorced Delhi Male) and soon started writing on motoring, food, and travel, too. Had anchored the motoring segment on Good Morning India over Star Plus since its inception in 1995. He
also contributes regularly to a vast variety of print media in India. He is the founding editor of the Automobile Owner’s Guide, an annual brought out by a subsidiary of Living Media since 1997. Discovered Chowk on 16th February ’99 while surfing the Net. Often writes, under a variety of pseudonyms on subjects pertaining to human rights and The System.

Getting to know more about street and ground level Pakistan, and willing to share the same knowledge about India, hopefully without letting stereotypes and bias coming in the way, is the current objective. Convinced that geo-eco-politics will, very soon, enable free movement across the border.

The only problem, as perceived, is that there is some doubt whether the colonials really left the sub-continent.

Current short-term aim: to drive some more across Pakistan and write even more about it.

Veeresh likes to live life as it comes his way, day to day, without causing harm to others. Favourite quote: Trust in God, but, at the same time, remember to tie your camel first!

Veeresh’s writings will be featured on Chowk and indexed under Delhi Calling.

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Delhi Calling column by Veeresh Malik

Articles by Veeresh Malik

Notes from the Sunderbans

Veeresh Malik Apr 13, 2007 interacts: 8 Views: 2566

Same place, different times. And now we are told that they may vanish below the surface of the Bay of Bengal in the next few years.

Why Have This Train At All?

Veeresh Malik Feb 19, 2007 interacts: 457 Views: 39964

The complete Samjhauta Express scenario as it operates now, with a full night for the bad guys and their cohorts to create havoc between Delhi and Attari, as well as on the way back, is all about smuggling between India and Pakistan

Risky Routes and Rootless People

Veeresh Malik May 21, 2006 interacts: 246 Views: 14986

A dhaba on a desolate crossroad in Gujarat is the place this young Muslim boy, parents gone adrift in the tussle between East and West Pakistan, finds sanctuary -- not wanted by the Promised Land his parents were never allowed into

Don’t I Have the Right to Know?

Veeresh Malik Apr 24, 2006 interacts: 23 Views: 4387

Kindly inform me about the definition of the term used by MEA: 'Muslim citizens of India', and its usage in this context, when historically non-Muslims from India have in the past performed Haj Pilgrimage

Beating The Retreat

Veeresh Malik Jan 27, 2006 interacts: 44 Views: 4450

This is one function where everybody who is anybody in Delhi, regardless of security, is present. Out in the open. Nothing between human and the elements and all that goes with it

Secular Army

Veeresh Malik Aug 24, 2005 interacts: 42 Views: 5637

It is a great contribution to Independent India that those who do not wear uniforms and may be communal themselves, made sure that those in uniform remained secular.

Wapsi (The Returning)

Veeresh Malik Apr 16, 2005 interacts: 299 Views: 34442

Review and Interview with filmmaker Ajay Raina ... In the times of yet another thaw in the relationship between India & Pakistan, an Indian ’Lover Of Cricket’ manages to go across to the other side of the ’Line of Control’ (LOC

Book: OPEN SECRETS - India`s Intelligence Unveiled

Veeresh Malik Apr 4, 2005 interacts: 4 Views: 2960

marks that important crossroads for an independent and confident Nation in literary non-fiction

Point of View, 1971 Through Now

Veeresh Malik Jan 6, 2005 interacts: 325 Views: 41890

Seeking out information about Indian Armed Forces personnel 'missing' or captured in and around Pakistan, especially in 1971.

Music: Rabbi

Veeresh Malik Dec 14, 2004 interacts: 0 Views: 5153

I don`t know about technical brilliance and electronic wizardly... but I know what will be playing in the nightclubs and soirees in Delhi this winter.

Train from Pakistan, 2004: The Return

Veeresh Malik Oct 20, 2004 interacts: 379 Views: 39804

Final preamble to an epilogue on a tribute that became a travelogue accused of being a monologue.

How that Other Democracy (India) Differs

Veeresh Malik Oct 15, 2004 interacts: 70 Views: 9482

As America goes to vote on a largely bi-polar election, it would be of interest to try to understand how that other democracy, India, differs.

Train to Pakistan 2004: La, Hore?

Veeresh Malik Aug 22, 2004 interacts: 496 Views: 53357

On anti-Americanism. Means, Taliban not gooood. But American not gooood, too. This starts a discussion, and we discover that an open debate on the pros and cons of USA is as wide-angle in this bus as anywhere else in the world. But nobody will say one bad

Train to Pakistan 2004 - Heading Back

Veeresh Malik Aug 1, 2004 interacts: 245 Views: 29408

This time around, I choose to dispense with the philosophy. I need to build up the pace and get back to India, there are other travelogues waiting to be written.

Train to Pakistan 2004 - Broad Ways

Veeresh Malik Jun 16, 2004 interacts: 137 Views: 18411

If there is one sentiment I believe in, then that is this - India and Pakistan can, as separate countries but with motive forces together, rule the world.

Train to Pakistan 2004: Just Another Touristy Day.

Veeresh Malik May 21, 2004 interacts: 76 Views: 12000

I can write a complete novel about this brief drive on the GT Road, but shall still not be able to do justice.

Train to Pakistan 2004: In and Around Pindi

Veeresh Malik May 12, 2004 interacts: 29 Views: 8537

A group of young men are convinced that Pakistan’s forthcoming loss in cricket to India does not really mean much because 4 of the Indian players are actually 'ours'... I spend a lot of time trying to explain status of Muslims in India and as Indian

Train to Pakistan 2004: Passage To Pindi

Veeresh Malik May 4, 2004 interacts: 31 Views: 9066

There are crowds and crowds of people waiting at Lahore to receive this train and the first loud words shouted over the top of the hullabulloo that I hear when I enter Lahore, are . . . . 'Ram Chander!! Ram Chander!?!'

Train to Pakistan 2004: The Journey Outbound

Veeresh Malik Apr 28, 2004 interacts: 48 Views: 11156

Attari International attracts more flies than all the Punjabs put together could have.

Train to Pakistan 2004: The Tribute

Veeresh Malik Apr 21, 2004 interacts: 66 Views: 11902

Where does one begin when trying to put down in words the unemotional but true rendition of what could well be the journey of a lifetime?

Movie: Maqbool

Veeresh Malik Feb 13, 2004 interacts: 3 Views: 2242

Good enough to say, please try to watch it with somebody who knows the real Bombay

Masala Art

Veeresh Malik Jul 13, 2003 interacts: 16 Views: 4382

Not a burger.

Qui a Tui Daniel Pearl

Veeresh Malik Jun 22, 2003 interacts: 23 Views: 4030

This must be a first for chowk. To try to review a French book without knowing much of the language oneself. So, this review is based on a post reading discussion with three friends and a close family member who are, how do we say it, parle vouz the Franc