14 Books | 9 Films | 3 National Film Awards | Public Health & Living Forever aficionado | Anti-theist | Disruptor who made IIPM the largest B-School on EARTH | Former Advisor to Planning Commission, Govt. of India’s Consultative Committees on Education & Social Sector | KickBoxing 3rd Dan BlackBelt
“The maverick management guru!”
Financial Times, London
“Set(s) the stage on fire”
“Inspiration personified”
The Times of India
“The intellectual litterateur of the decade”
The Hindustan Times
“The Original Education Entrepreneur of India”
The Print
"Near Evangelical Academic”
Business Barons
"Mega Disruptor and Godfather of Private Education in India"
Elite Magazine
For over three decades, through his Classes, his Books, his TV shows on Alternate Budget in every possible TV channel, his Public Lectures, his Films and his Articles in leading Newspapers from TOI to IE to HT; He has positively influenced and impacted the lives of hundreds of millions across India and the world. His public seminars are a rage, with thousands attending. He has been invited to train and inspire the Indian Armed Forces, the Central Armed Police Forces (CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP), the Delhi Police and the Civil Services Officers of the IAS and IFS amongst others! Arindam has been invited to teach and inspire students at the most prestigious colleges across the length and breadth of world- from the Harvard Business School in USA to the Imperial College in UK to CUHK in Hong Kong to IIT-K in India. From CEOs to Entrepreneurs, from Success Icons to Celebrities; Arindam has personally trained them in areas of Leadership, Management, Economics & Strategic Vision.
Arindam’s lifelong vision and work has focused towards eradication of three evils - Religion, Income Inequality & Gender Discrimination; And champion a new order with Equal Access to Health, Education & Justice.
A thought leader, Arindam’s top most ability is to help others look beyond the obvious by mixing his original philosophies with academic theories, and he championed that at IIPM through the paper he taught, ‘Beyond Principles of Management & Economics’ and through the mission of IIPM that he stood for, ‘Dare To Think Beyond’. More than a million people have directly attended his lectures over the last three decades & more and more than 50k people have taken direct professional training from him. With 4 million+ fans on Facebook, he is the most followed economist and management icon in the world.
Arindam has a Bachelors & Masters Degree in Economics from Madras University, an Honours Diploma in Industrial Engineering & a Post Graduate Diploma in Planning & Management from IIPM and a Ph.D in Business from University of Buckingham.
As an outspoken anti-theist Arindam believes health scares are a key reason for fraudulent religious practices and belief in God to thrive. He believes while economies around the world make Universal Basic Income covering health, housing & education a common practice; Science will soon make humans almost live forever and make the need for God redundant. From losing his younger bother — who was then only 19 — to a road accident, to losing his elder half brother to a racist attack, to losing his father who he wished lived forever, to losing his most adored 11 year old nephew to Cancer; Deaths, and resultantly the want to hold on to loved ones & change the health care system has been one of the greatest urges he has nurtured. It has lead him to become a passionate & CERTIFIED champion of Public Health & Disease Prevention, Longevity Science & Biohacking and, Preventive Care & Lifestyle Medicine, intertwining various aspects of Community Health, Mental Well-Being, Nutrition & Exercise Physiology.
Arindam considers himself a lifelong student and thus has not only read, researched, lectured & practiced extensively on these intrinsically interconnected areas of his passion but to keep himself scientifically abreast, he has earned more than 35 certifications from the most reputed global institutions — 50% of them being from Harvard University — spread cumulatively across a whopping 156 weeks of official total program duration on his three areas of passion mentioned above (Public Health & Disease Prevention, Longevity Science & Biohacking and, Preventive Care & Lifestyle Medicine)! He calls it a ‘self curated online Medical Specialization in Humanity, Longevity & Lifestyle’.
Driven by his father Dr. Malay Chaudhuri’s passion and tireless work on Community Health and deeply impacted by the road accident that took away his brother in 1994, Arindam has written extensively on Public Health and it has been a part of his lectures since then. Arindam has been invited by the Associations of Medical Professionals to impart leadership program on Public Health to Doctors on one hand and on the other he has been invited by NACO to impart training to PLWHA (People Living With HIV/AIDS). As a part of The Great Indian Dream Foundation and Manavata Seva Kendras, in memory of his brother, he along with his father funded and initiated multiple Public Health initiatives for rural & urban India including setting up of Low Cost Bypass Surgery initiatives in Rural Bengal & Running Ambulances and Night Shelter facilities in Delhi. GIDF even funded cremation facilities to give human beings dignity after death. He has written extensively on key changes required to revolutionise India’s healthcare system in his India Trilogy - Planning India (1997), The Great Indian Dream (2003) & 2047: A Roadmap to beating USA & China (2022).
Arindam was one of the rare people who predicted the scary possibility of a future pandemic, 15 years before COVID struck through a Cover Story he wrote in ‘Business & Economy’ Magazine predicting a possible 50 million deaths. During COVID he wrote multiple article articles spreading awareness and suggesting policies to the government to deal with the crisis and calculated that at least 5 Million died in India during COVID based on facts and figures, an entire one year before WHO came out with its figure of 4.5 Million. From Dr. Devi Shetty to Dr. Y.K. Hamied, You We Can, Arunachalam Muruganantham, Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak & Laxmi Agarwal have all been honoured with IIPM’s ‘Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar’ along with substantial Prize Money ranging between ₹50,000/- and ₹5,00,000 to encourage and promote public health in India.
Arindam’s certifications in Public Health & Disease Prevention include, three from Harvard University - two with associate school, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in ‘Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic’, ‘The Health Effects of Climate Change’; And one with associate school Harvard Medical School, in ‘Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs’. He has also got three certifications from Stanford University in ‘International Women’s Health & Human Rights’, ‘Love as a Force for Social Justice’ & ‘Teaching LGBTQ+ Health’; Two certifications from Johns Hopkins University in ‘The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health’ and ‘Covid-19 Contact Tracing’; Two certifications from American Museum of Natural History in ‘Genetics & Society: A course for educators’. & ‘Evolution: A course for educators’; One from Mayo Clinic on ‘AI Foundations & Applications for Emerging Healthcare Leaders’; And one from Yale University on ‘Addiction Treatment: Clinical Skills for Healthcare Providers’. He has further done a Career Specialisation Quadruple Certificate Program from Penn Med & The Wharton School on ‘The Business of Healthcare’ that included certifications in ‘Health Care Innovation’ & ‘Economics of Health Care Delivery’.
Arindam started giving lectures on Longevity since 2009, when he first wrote an article on Living Forever titled ‘The Desirability of Living Forever’— long before the fad emerged. In the field of Longevity Science & Biohacking he has got Credentials in ‘The Science of How to Live Forever’ conferred jointly by Stanford School of Medicine & Stanford Engineering, and ‘Your Body Inside and Out: Using Exercise Physiology to Slow Aging’ from Stanford University.
In the field of Happiness & Well-Being, Arindam propounded his original concept of “Happy Capitalism”,— a theory of Emotional Well-Being in a Capitalist Society way back in 2003 in his book ‘The Great Indian Dream’ (something that he was teaching since 1994 in IIPM). Happy Capitalism includes his 4 Iconic contributions to the cause of Happiness & Humanism viz. a) Theory of Increasing Marginal Utility b) Survival of the Weakest c) Trickle Up Theory d) Theory of Quantity Time. To him wellness goes beyond mental health and as an absolute fitness enthusiast, he believes in leading from the front and is a 3rd Dan Black Belt in Kick Boxing and Certificate Holder in Advanced Yoga Techniques having done Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced courses of 75 hrs each in Yoga Sciences & Asanas for Wellness, Fitness & Flexibility; And regularly practices yoga since 2005 & Kick Boxing since 2014.
Apart from the above, in the field of Preventive Care & Lifestyle Medicine he has a PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE in ‘Happiness in Leadership’ from Harvard University, two certifications from Harvard University in ‘Managing Happiness’ (Associate Schools: Harvard Business School & John F. Kennedy School of Government) & ‘Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health’, one Certificate from YALE UNIVERSITY in ‘The Science of Well Being’; and three Certifications from Harvard Health Online (HHP, Harvard Medical School) in ‘Cognitive Fitness’, ‘Improving Your Memory’ & ‘Understanding Depression’. He has further done Certifications from HHP, in ‘An Introduction to Tai Chi’, ‘Yoga & You’ & ‘Walking for Health’, ‘Healthy Eating for Type 2 Diabetes’ ‘Lose Weight & Keep it Off’, ‘6-Week Plan for Healthy Eating’, ‘Improving Your Sleep’, ‘Fighting Inflammation’, ‘The Sensitive Gut’, ‘Managing Your Cholesterol’ & ‘Controlling Your Blood Pressure’.
Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Ph.D. thesis was on 'Regional Cultural Influences in Post-Deregulated India: An empirical examination of employees’ values and expectations from leaders'. Dr. Arindam therefore is a specialist by education in India centric leadership. His contribution to the field of management studies can be found in the iconoclastic "Theory 'i' Management" which he has developed for India Inc. in his book “Count Your Chickens before they Hatch”. "Theory 'i' Management" is about India centric management ideas with global applicability.
He is the author of #1 monster best-seller Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch. His book "Discover the Diamond in You" for which he got an unprecedented advance, became a record breaking best seller, selling 1,00,000 copies in the first ten days itself! He is also the author of ‘Planning India‘, the three path breaking iconoclastic books viz ‘2047’, ‘What Marx Left Unsaid’ & ‘Beyond God & Capitalism’ and the #1 best-selling books- ‘The Great Indian Dream’, ‘Thorns To Competition’ & ‘CULT’.
From industry associations like CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM & PHDCCI to TEDx talks to Rotary to School Principals & Chartered Accountants - Arindam has been invited to enlighten them all.
British Council - Association of British Scholars to Dubai's IBPC have organised exclusive seminars to felicitate Arindam. In America from NABC to leading universities like UC Davis - Graduate School of Management, University of California to Daniels School of Business, Denver University to Kenan Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina have invited him for exclusive talks. World HRD Congress invited him across Asia from Singapore to Colombo to Manila to give Key Note Address on 'Global Wage Equality Crusade' based upon his book, What Marx Left Unsaid.
From Hindustan Times to Times of India to Dainik Bhaskar group — they have all taken Arindam on cross country lecture tours to inspire the nation. From NDTV to Times Now to CNN IBN to Zee to India TV to Aaj Tak, they have all invited him repeatedly to share his views on varied topics from Politics to Judiciary to Education to International Relations to Lifestyle & Fitness to Cricket to Movies to Automobiles to Mobile Phones. He has also been an RJ with Radio Mirchi.
In 2009, Arindam launched the biggest international B-School Quiz competition in India— the 4Ps B&M - IIPM B-School Quiz — with none other than Shah Rukh Khan as the Quiz Master!
Serial Entrepreneurship runs in his blood and that’s what makes him a unique academic. In 1995 he founded Planman Consulting which helps Fortune 500 companies to start-ups looking towards the next big leap, with 360 degree Consulting solutions. Planman Group has business interests in IT, Media, Movies and Charity.
Under the banner of his’Planman Motion Pictures’ he has made several highly acclaimed films like Do Dooni Chaar, The Last Lear etc.In 2007 his film 'Dosor' got selected at the prestigious CANNES FESTIVAL. His 9 films have won 5 National Awards & 4 Filmfare Awards out of which he personally won 3 National Awards for — Faltu, The Last Lear & Do Dooni Chaar. He takes the credit for giving the legendary Amitabh Bachchan the first English Film of his career— ‘The Last Lear’ and bringing back the Iconic couple of Rishi Kapoor & Neetu Singh on screens after 30 years in ‘Do Dooni Chaar’. The Last Lear premiered as the Red Carpet Gala Center Piece film at the Toronto Film Festival.
His bouquet of 9 Feature Films consists of one in English- 'The Last Lear'; 5 in Hindi- 'Do Dooni Chaar', 'Mithya', 'I'm 24', 'Rok Sako Toh Rok Lo' and about to be released 'Sunglass' -bi-lingual- in Hindi & Bangla- and 3 in Bangla- 'Dosar', 'Faltu', 'Saanjhbaatir Rupkathara'. His films have also got selections at festivals in Hamburg, Rome, London, Rotterdam, Spain, Montreal, Edmonton, Melbourne, Abu Dhabi, Madrid & Singapore amongst others.
Arindam was a part of the original FICCI committee that lobbied for the industry status for Bollywood, under the leadership of Yash Chopra. His first directorial venture, Rok Sako To Rok Lo was the first film on earth to premiere on a mobile phone and get live streamed. His films were India entry vehicles for leading houses like Columbia Tristar & Disney.
In 2017, he started the Power Brands Bollywood Film Journalist's Awards-the first honest & transparent awards in Bollywood where the winners are awarded through OPEN BALLOT ONLINE voting by the leading film critics of India. The award was launched by Rishi Kapoor.
He is also the founder of the charity, Aurobindo Chaudhuri Memorial Great Indian Dream Foundation - started in memory of his brother in 2002. GIDF works in the areas of Health, Education, Employment and Environment. GIDF has supported developmental activities in 2,000 villages, impacting millions of lives across more than 12 states in India through primary schools, medical camps and medical vans and has supported low cost open heart surgeries, developmental and employment generation work through varied activities like women’s self help groups, donating sewing machines, building of check water dams, toilets, schools etc. Cricketing Icon Sachin Tendulkar has in past been the ambassador for GIDF with the iconic line “There’s more to life than cricket”.
Arindam has played a significant role in promoting Musical Concerts in India and has been instrumental in organising multiple rock concerts across states in India, including those of AIR SUPPLY, MLTR, BONEY M amongst many others.
A sports lover, in 2008, Arindam started one of India’s leading sports management outfits - Planman Stars and brought in innovative advertising on Indian TV through the launch of Virtual advertising - continuous addition of digitized imageries during live TV broadcast for the first time in India. Planman Stars managed multiple cricket tournaments around the globe including get the Indian Cricket Team and multiple IPL teams.
He was also the owner of the Delhi Franchise of i1 Super Series, India’s first racing league.
Arindam is also passionate about Journalism & Media and is the Editorin-Chief of DailyIndian.com, The Sunday Indian — The world's only news weekly that used to come out in 14 languages, Business & Economy,4Ps Business & Marketing and The Human Factor.
He has been a columnist with about two dozen papers in India including 'The New Indian Express', 'Asian Age', 'Deccan Chronicle', 'Mid Day', 'Pioneer', 'Central Chronicle', 'The Sunday Standard', 'The North East Sun Magazine', 'Meghalaya Guardian', 'Echo of Arunachal', 'Nagaland Post', 'Sikkim Express', 'Kashmir Times', 'Millennium Post', 'Dainik Bhaskar' (Hindi edition; The No.1 daily newspaper in India), 'Navabharat' (Hindi), 'Asomiya Pratidin' (Assamese), 'Dharitiri' (Oriya), 'Poknapham' (Manipuri) and Urdu dailies 'Etemaad', 'Kashmir Uzma' and 'Sahafat'; making his columns at one time amongst the most widely read in India covering all parts of India in every other language. In the past, he has also been a columnist with 'Hindustan Times' and 'The Times of India' and a guest columnist with 'The Economic Times', 'The Indian Express', 'Business Standard', 'The Financial Express', 'The Sunday Observer', 'India Today Plus', 'Dash', 'Gentleman' and 'Life Positive'. Apart from writing on issues of burning national importance, he writes extensively on China, Africa and America.
Arindam is currently the Honorary Director of the IIPM Think Tank at IIPM, one of India’s leading entrepreneurial institutions. IIPM has been previously ranked as one of India’s topmost B-Schools - No.1 in Intellectual Impact, No.1 in Global Exposure, No.1 in CSR, No.4 Overall and in Industry Interface and No.6 in Placements as well as Quality of Faculty amongst all B-Schools in India. He teaches Leadership, Humanism & National Economic Planning.
From 2001 to 2021 he presented annually a much watched “Alternative Budget” programme on TV, on the day before the budget is announced. The same has been aired on leading TV channels like Headlines Today, Zee News and India TV. As a budget specialist for those two decades he was virtually on every other TV channel of India on the Day of the Annual Budget. In 2022 with the publication of his book 2047 with an outline of policies & prescriptions for the next 25 years, he stopped his annual budget shows.
Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri conducts workshops, seminars and lecture tours on Comparative Management Techniques worldwide. As a management thinker he specializes in the areas of Strategic Vision, Leadership and Comparative Management Techniques. Apart from his international seminar tours, since 1998, he has been conducting workshops on Leadership and Strategic Vision exclusively for CEOs, MDs, Directors and Presidents from the corporate sector in India. From the Managing Director of Hero Motors to the President of Tata Chemicals, from the Executive President of A.V. Birla Group to the CEO of Ernst & Young have all taken LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOPS from him. From public sector giants like NTPC to GAIL to private sector giants like Microsoft to ABB have either had Arindam come over and speak to their executives or have sent their top management people to attend his workshops. This is of course apart from a list of virtually every other organization worth its name who have benefitted from his consulting firm Planman's various consulting solutions.
In August 2021 he started the World’s Greatest LIVE ONLINE Education Initiative - A Billion Leaders, where he personally teaches LEADERSHIP & HUMANITY.
An economist by passion and education, during Bill Clinton's historic visit to India in 2001 he launched his ‘Great Indian Dream -: India can beat America’; a series of seminars for every Indian, focusing on policies that can help India catch with the American per capita income, and even surpass it .
Apart from his original multi theory based concept of ‘Happy Capitalism’ & ‘Theory ‘I’ Management’, Arindam has propounded multiple theories over the last three decades, namely— ‘9Ps Success Trilliant Theory’, ‘NECTAR for Living Forever’ and ‘IA in times of AI’. In Thorns to Competition where THORNS itself is a theory by itself, he turned the basic premise of Marketing upside down by saying that ‘Needs Can Be Created’, and in his economics books he said economies don’t have three central problems. They essentially only have one— for whom to produce, and that determines how any government looks after the most marginalised in the economy.
In 2017 Dr. Chaudhuri launched the Power Brands LIFE (London International Forum of Equality). A forum through which he intends to give a mega voice to the need for global equality - in education, access to health facilities, access to minimum dignified living and judiciary.
To further the cause, on May 5th 2018, he started the Global Wage Equality Crusade. As a part of it, he has been speaking across the world in an effort to reach out to decision makers in government as well as corporate sectors on the urgent need of policies that can make the wage ratio between the lowest paid worker and the highest paid worker as 3:1. The entire philosophy is based on his father Dr Malay Chaudhuri's original theory of Production of Skills by Means of Skills outlined in the book What Marx Left Unsaid.
Arindam’s father, Dr. Malay Chaudhuri, the Founder Director of IIPM also founded the Bhartiya Manavata Vikas Party— a Political Party dedicated to Human Development. Arindam doesn’t rule out reviving the party, one day.