Arindam Chaudhuri.
Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri has been called the âMaverick Management Guru' by none other than the Financial Times, London, and, âIndia's Original Education Entrepreneur' (by The Print) and âGodfather of Private Education in India' (by Elite Magazine) for pioneering private education in India. IIPM, the Institute that he became the face of, not only charged the highest fees in India but also became the largest B-School on earth. While we are told that with the dream of âEducation for All', he is currently planning to launch a new education venture to shut down colleges in India (because he believes no student needs brick and mortar college education anymore); he is also taking his mission of âLongevity for All', global.
Arindam believes in the possibilities and desirability of Living Forever and, in 2009, he was the first Indian to write on the scientific possibilities of Living Forever and continues to write and take workshops on this under the aegis of Live Long, Lead Strong. Today he has probably the world's highest number of certifications from Harvard & Stanford alone (50+) on Longevity Science sang Public Health and is spearheading the âLongevity for All' movement in India through his workshops and his initiative, NECTAR: Centre for the Science of Happiness & Longevity.
The idea he says is clear, "The first human expected to live for a 1000 years has already taken birth, and longevity needn't remain confined to the rich and billionaires. Longevity for All is possible and that's the mission of NECTAR". After having spoken all across the globe- from Harvard Business School to Imperial College- on Leadership & Economics, he is now going global with his Longevity Workshops with the first one on âLive Long, Lead Strong' is scheduled later this year in London.
While focusing on Education and Longevity for all, he continues to work on his other 4 pillars of social reform and human happiness, viz Justice for All and Eradication of the three evils of Income Inequality, Gender Inequality and Religion. Judicial reforms & âJustice for All' have been a recurring theme throughout his speeches, articles and books with detailed chapters. After spending a short time in India's Tihar Jail, he wrote an article, âSurviving Tihar: The Good, the Bad and the Nazi', detailing all that's wrong with the Indian reformatory system and in his landmark book 2047: A Roadmap to Beating USA & China, he elaborated further on the changes needed.
Despite being known to have had two Bentleys at one point of time and taking Shah Rukh Khan around in them, Arindam is a radical 1.25:1 egalitarian-who believes income inequality is one of the three greatest evils in our society that needs to be eliminated and the highest paid individual in any company should be paid only 1.25 times more than the lowest paid employee and has written a book on it- âWhat Marx Left Unsaid'.
As an antitheist he believes Religion and God are the second greatest evil society needs to eliminate and are the biggest problems facing humanity. In 2019, he wrote his 500-page tome, âBeyond God & Capitalism' which was launched first in London by the Global icon of Militant Atheism, Prof. Richard Dawkins and in India by the Former President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee.
In his opinion, the third greatest evil to be eliminated is gender inequality and he continues to be a strong proponent of property rights for women. He speaks and writes regularly on it and believes the evil of gender inequality can be eliminated by giving compulsory housing to women irrespective of their marital status.
But what he can personally make a difference in is in Education and Health and that's what he is planning to do with his Longevity workshops.
