An intelligence officer who wielded the pen with equal ease

After retirement,Dhar had taken to writing. He authored several books and had a blog on which he wrote his views on strategic matters,and politics.

“Maloy Krishna Dhar is not a man to be mourned and cried over. His life is one to be celebrated and learned from. Dying is a biological inevitability,but what matters is what one does with the time one is allotted. On that count,my father led a life so full and so eventful that his life itself could make for a bestselling book like the ones he authored,” Dhar’s son,Mainak Dhar,wrote on his blog.

Dhar’s biggest success as a writer came in the form of Open Secrets: India’s Intelligence Unveiled,an insider account of the intelligence establishment and the kind of pressures that come to bear on it in discharge of its duties. The book generated an intense debate and remained the number one non-fiction bestseller for several months. His

other books included We The People of India:

A Story of Gangland Democracy’ and ‘Operation XXX,a fictional story of a deep cover agent that many believed was part autobiographical.