Sudhir Malik
Sudhir Malik is a Chartered Accountant, financial advisor, opinion maker, storyteller, and author.
His journey into writing fiction, poetry, and short stories began with a sensitive topic: the Partition of India. The Partition is regarded as the worst man-made disaster in recorded world history, involving looting, rapes, murders, and mass graves, with 3.4 million people reported missing and 14.5 million displaced, labelled as refugees in their own country.
A lot has been written about the pain and suffering of partition, but not much about the friendship and humanity that saved millions during those turbulent times. Sudhir wrote his father’s fictionalised memoir, beautifully depicting interfaith friendship and his fathers’s fight against the identity crisis that labelled him a refugee, aptly titled ‘I Am Not a Refugee’.
His father’s memoir wouldn’t have received accolades from readers without showing shades of Urdu poetry titled ‘Jangnaama. Sudhir took it as a challenge to have Jangnaama transliterated into Devanagari, a language that all can read.
Sudhir took part in a poetry writing challenge and created a collection of twenty-one poems titled उबलते पानी के मेंढक.
His latest books, which explore life on Earth in the near future and include short stories based on real events, are currently under publication.
Sudhir’s writing skills led him to write columns for leading newspapers.His Monday column in The Hindustan Times,‘Save & Prosper’ on personal finance and taxation,was an instant hit and went on to contribute about 150 columns. Then he wrote five-yearly volumes of ‘Investment Ready Reckoner’ for Taxmann, a leading publisher of taxation books. He wrote for Value Research Mutual Funds Insight and other magazines, including WaterAid.
Born in 1957, Sudhir Malik obtained a degree in science from Delhi University and a Chartered Accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and PPP specialisation courses from IP3- Institute for Public Private Partnership, Washington D.C., USA.
Sudhir has been providing services in corporate restructuring, India entry strategies, transaction advisory services, and consulting for urban and rural infrastructure projects, especially waste management. While working with technocrats and architects on complex infrastructure projects, his science background, up to graduation, helped him decipher technical nuances while developing financial and fiscal models and carrying out bid processes for PPP (Public-Private Partnership) and other projects using national and international toolkits. He honed his skills in risk identification and allocation, drafting contracts and concession agreements, as well as project finance and financial closure for public-private partnership (PPP) projects.
He has worked on projects funded by the World Bank, ADB, JICA, Ministries, State Governments, and GoI-funded schemes, including JnNURM, Smart Cities, NamamiGange, and AMRUT.
He has played a vital role in accounting and fiscal reform initiatives, guiding various government and non-government agencies. He has been delivering lectures on accounting systems, finance, tax, and investments on the ICAI platform and the PHD Chamber of Commerce. He appeared live as an Investment Analyst every week on Zee (Business News), a TV channel, for more than two years.
As an organiser of conferences and seminars on governmental polices such as ‘The Smart Cities, Land Pooling policies, urban waste management and PPP. has work been wideyl appreciated.
He is a student of Core Indian Classical Vocals and plays golf