About
Maloy Krishna Dhar (68) was born in Kamalpur, Bhairab-Mymensingh in East Bengal. As a youngster, he and his family migrated to India walking through bloodbath. Maloy completed his university education with a Masters degree in Bengali Literature and Language and Comparative Literature from Calcutta University. He taught in a college and worked as a junior staff reporter before joining the Indian Police Service in 1964. He was drafted to the Central Intelligence Bureau in 1968. He had seen actions in the North East, Sikkim, Punjab, and Kashmir, and handled important political, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency and counterintelligence operations.
After retirement, Maloy reverted to his first love, writing columns for leading newspapers and authoring literary and research based books.
Books written by Maloy have drawn domestic and global attention and his two books remained best sellers for considerable period. His literary works include:
• Open Secrets: India’s Intelligence Unveiled.
• Fulcrum of Evil: ISI, CIA Al Qaeda Nexus (The first authentic researched
book on Pakistan’s involvement in Jihad)
• Operation Triple X (A Spy Novel)
• Mission: Pakistan (A Spy Novel)
• Black Thunder (A fact-based Fictional Version of the Punjab Tragedy)
• We The People of India: A Story of Gangland Democracy
• Khulle Bhed (Punjabi Translation of Open Secrets)
• Khule Rahasya (Hindi Translation of Open Secrets)
• Kauri Fasal (Punjabi Translation of Black Thunder).
Maloy Krishna Dhar is also co-author of the following books from Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA):
• Pakistan After 9/11
• Pakistan Occupied Kashmir-The Untold Story
• Frontier in Flames-North East India in Turmoil
His forthcoming literary works would encompass Indian social malaises and research based books on national and international security matters.
Keep tab on this nonconformist fearless writer who does not blink in even when the mighty state machineries frown and exhibit the stick for exposing the bitter truths.
