Open Secrets Quotes

“It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling. Bertrand Russell.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“War and peace can be deferred but not kept hanging, especially when the enemy gains strength by leaps and bounds. A hanging issue often develops incurable gangrene.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“India’s soul lived in the villages.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“It is an attempt on the part of a backer and wrecker of the system to share his anguish with his countrymen. An inside sinner is honestly trying to share his pains. I will be immensely happy if the discerning sections of the people wake up to the need of democratising these key institutions of the nation and safeguard the constitutional liberty of the people.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with discovery of the truth—that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. H. L. Mencken”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. Thomas Fuller”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“lack of scientific equipment often helped in sharpening up the inner skills of a person.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“insecurity invariably makes a man aggressive.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. Bruce Burton”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Conscience more often triggers off painful chemicals than pleasant aroma.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Perfection was a state of mind, a matter of perception, a make believe confluence of time, space, mind and matter.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“In government service a junior cannot afford to be smarter than his senior.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The year 1988 marked the beginning of direct infiltration into Indian Kashmir by the operatives of the Joint Intelligence North (JIN) of the ISI.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Dying is a biological inevitability, but what matters is what one does with the time one is allotted.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Indira used cannons to maim a small potentate that could be done by an ordinary swatter. It was an overkill and perhaps not necessary for the geo-political insularity of India. Expanding its borders cannot ensure the security of a nation. Security comes from within the people. Indira faltered again on that front. The people of India were disenchanted with the Durga of 1971.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The worst scenario can be— a rogue cabal of intelligence boss and ambitious Army officers can subvert the democratic process, especially when the political players are nose dipped in criminalisation of politics. The allurements are many and the opportunities are limitless. The political breed must understand that their pet toys like the IB, CBI and R&AW can misfire and injure them. The nation should be secured by Acts of the Parliament to rein in the intelligence and investigative fraternity. In the interest of our fragile democracy we cannot allow ISI like organisations to take root.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The IB and the R&AW did not suffer; they still do not, from the ‘bane of accountability’ to the constitutionally formed machineries of the country. This requires major system correction. The politicians should understand that as the fabric of the democracy weakens the intelligence machinery could be more ruthlessly used by power hungry political elites. Indira Gandhi did this blatantly when she deviated from the democratic norms and imposed internal emergency.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“I must admit here with a sense of guilt that I was called upon for the second time to subvert the loyalty of a section of the UDF members of the Nagaland legislature. My targets included a Sema and a few non-Angami MLAs. I did whatever I could do to ‘motivate` them to defect to the NNO at the behest of the masters in Delhi. That was my second tryst with blatant unlawful activities. By that time I had come to realise that intelligence machineries are blatantly used for promoting political interests. Agencies like IB are not mere tools of safeguarding the security of the country. They are required to serve the narrow political interest of the ruling elite.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“There is a perception that because of her domestic compulsions more than anything else had prompted Indira Gandhi to carry out nuclear implosion at Pokharan. This is not a correct perception. Lal Bahadur Shashtri was responsible for ordering weaponisation of India’s nuclear programme. Scrounging of old records would prove this beyond any doubt.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“It’s not certain if democracy in India offers equal opportunity to its people. But it offers more than equal opportunity to the political class to share the booty amongst themselves at suitable intervals through the process of elected democracy. The emergence of the political class in independent India has defeated all classic definitions of class struggle.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Strange are the ways of the ignorant politicians and the self-seeking bureaucrats, who continue to sell fake peace to the people of India!”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“The word Hindu is a geopolitical description and not a religious marker.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“I realised that ideological unrest should not be treated as mere ethnic disturbance and that there was no military solution for that. To keep a people with the country the country should also convince the people that it was worth a paradise to live and die for. I still nurse this value. But Manipur was not the last horizon of India’s imbalanced approach to its own people. I had chanced to face the similar crisis of faith in Punjab, Kashmir, Assam and other areas of internal conflict.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer

“Reconnecting with the roots of older civilisations and cultures often lead to renaissance. The early days of the growth of Indian nationalism had also witnessed such renaissance and reconnecting with the glorious past. Something went wrong in Manipur. The quest for the past had arisen out of frustration with the present political, economic and social circumstances. Delhi wasted time in recognising the right prescription for the ills of Manipur, as it did in the cases of all the states in the Northeast and other pockets of imbalance in the rest of the country.”
― Maloy Krishna Dhar, Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer