Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri is back with his next book, ‘Africa Before America’, following his landmark book, ‘2047: A Roadmap to Beating USA & China’, released in 2022 to mark 75 years of Indian Independence.
“Yes, with 2047, I completed the trinity of books on Indian economic development written over a period of 25 years. The first, ‘Planning India’, was written to mark the 50th year of Indian Independence in 1997, followed by ‘The Great Indian Dream’. Finally, with 2047, I wrapped up my father Dr. Malay Chaudhuri’s vision for India at 100. It is now time for me to move on to my father’s ‘Great Global Dream’ of an egalitarian society with global equality,” said Arindam, announcing the launch of ‘Africa Before America’.
He has been teaching the radical 1.25:1 egalitarian concept, based on his father Dr. Malay Chaudhuri’s theory from his book Production of Skills by Means of Skill, since 1994. He believes income inequality is one of the three greatest evils in our society that needs to be eliminated, and that the highest-paid individual in any company should be paid only 1.25 times more than the lowest-paid employee.
Based on this philosophy, three generations of the Chaudhuri family came together to write the unique book ‘What Marx Left Unsaid’. With Africa Before America, Arindam plans to lay out his global vision of a developed and equal society.
“It might as well have been named ‘The Great Global Dream’, but somehow, a philosophy that gives priority to growth and human development in Africa says the same thing about the urgent need to remove the deep global income inequalities—in different words,” sums up Arindam.
Arindam has been called the ‘Maverick Management Guru’ by none other than the Financial Times, London, and, ‘India’s Original Education Entrepreneur’ (by The Print) and ‘Godfather 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 ‘Education 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 ‘Longevity 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 ‘Longevity for All’ movement in India through his workshops and his initiative, NECTAR: Centre for the Science of Happiness & Longevity.
While focusing on Removing the evil of Income inequality and promoting Education and Longevity for all, he continues to work on his other 3 pillars of social reform and human happiness, viz Justice for All and Eradication of the the evils of Gender Inequality and Religion. Judicial reforms & ‘Justice 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, ‘Surviving Tihar: The Good, the Bad and the Nazi’, detailing all that’s wrong with the Indian reformatory system and in his book 2047: A Roadmap to Beating USA & China, he elaborated further on the changes needed.
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, ‘Beyond 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.
With his 25-year-long work on the Indian Economic Planning Trinity behind him, Arindam will —to mark his father’s 90th birthday early next year— embark on a journey to spread the mission of “Global Equality of Marx & Malay”, as he loves calling it.
