Dear Nath sahib

Would you like to write something relating to the Mitrokhin files controversy for us? I have misplaced your number so please let me know. We would require about 1000 words, perhaps on the whole matter of what foreign agencies try to do in the country, and what we try to do to foil them.

Pleae do let me know.

Regards,
Aditya Sinha
Associate Editor
Sunday HT

Dear Mr.Nath,
Thank you for the information.

Sam Mohan Lal
India

Dear Mr.Nath,
Thank you for the newsletter. Pl inform me about your seminar also for coverage.
Regards,
H. Khurshid
New Delhi, India

my dear dhanesh,i have sent today by courier some literature etc re: TOI EXPO 2005.please publish my talk in any security-related magazine. thanks, kpm.

Nath Ji Namaste

Nice to hear from you again. Keep up the good work The newsletter is very informative and interesting. Regards.

A K Moorthy, CPP, FSyI, FISM
Regional Vice President
ASIS International Region XXXII

Mr. D C Nath,
Thanks for apprising of security activity , We along with Col A K Sawani are open to all ideas. Pl. feel free to flow the exchange of ex princes.Regards
Anji Kapoor
Vice Prisedent
Indian Industrial Security Services P Ltd.

Dear Sir,
It is first time, since I am receiving your Newsletters have courage to stipulate few lines to you. Since beginning I have been reading your letters thoroughly and they were, are and will be useful in the security profession.
It may be the opinion of some gentelmen that Newsletter should be briefer and professionally useful, but in my opinion "SUBJECTIVITY CAN NOT BE ELIMINATED OR IGNORED."
So you may proceed with your plan.
Thanks with regards.
Rajesh Sinha
Branch Head, Bhubaneshwar

Dear Mr Nath,

Thanks a lot for your prompt response. More will follow from my side.
Regards
Col HK Jha

News Letter for September 2005

Dear Mr. Nath,

We are glad that the president of India has accorded consent on 23rd June 2005 on The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act,2005.

We in Maharashtra are at present functioning under the Maharashtra Private Security Guards (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Act, 1981. The Act of 1981 has created the security Guard Board and also for the security guard working for the board under section 23 it has granted exemptions for certain security guards to operate under the employees agency. The word Security Agency is no where found in the Act. 1981 or the The Maharashtra Private Security Guards (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Scheme, 2002. The Act of 1981 has also created the rules for the The Maharashtra Private Security Guards (Advisory Committee) Rules, 1981. This Act of 1981 now extends to the whole State of Maharashtra.

The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005 is an All India Act which deals with the appointment of controlling authority, also it says no Security Agency can operate without licence. It gives details as provision of eligibility, application of licence, Renewal of Licence, Cancellation and Appeals etc . It also empowers the State Government to make rules. The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005 is a proper Act which must supersede the Act of 1981.

We are grateful to the Home Minister for making it legal and permissible.

Kind Regards.

Cdr.O.P Bakshi IN (Retd.)

Dear Dhaneshda,

I've just got back to office after a brief leave.

Thank you so much for the encouragement.

There is one thing though that I must tell you. The basic story of the waves, as I mention in my story, is borrowed. It's to be found in a book titled "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. Of course, I've narrated it from memory and in my own fashion. The original, in my opinion, is a bit too brief and lacks emotion. And for the last two lines ("Think not your are a wave. Know you are the ocean.") I've had to fall back on my recent reading of Indian philosophy.

Sometime long back, when I was a journalist, I had dreams of publishing a book of stories. But as I left the profession, my dreams left me. But now that I have got encouragement from a published author, I think I will try to put together something again.

The newsletter that I edit among various other things is "Inside ICRA".
It's meant for ICRA employees, present and past. Will be glad to send you a copy of the forthcoming issue.

With regards,
Udayan Majumdar