The Great Indian Dream : Restoring Pride to a Nation Betrayed

In this book we have not only analyzed the basic impediment in India's march to glory but have also madean attempt to identify budgetary resources to end the poverty of the masses.The second aspect that needsmention is our attempt to show how the inequality among sections of population can be removed within areasonable time frame. Lastly, we have shown what needs to be done to catch up with the developedworld by the year 2025.Dr. Malay Chaudhuri founded The Indian Institute of Planning & Management in the year 1973, aftergiving up his professorship at the IIM, Bangalore. His dream was to set up an institute which would focusnot just on management but also on macro economic aspects of India. Thus, IIPM was set up with avision to economy and integrate management concepts with concepts of national economic planning toproduce barefoot managers who would always remain committed to removing the massive poverty of thepeople of India. Dr. Malay Chaudhuri's students, although spread across the globe, holding crucial anddecision - making positions in the corporate sector, are bonded by that one ideology of making a positivedifference, turning that ideology into a movement in itself. Arindam Chaudhuri, co-author of this book, isone of Dr. Malay Chaudhuri's students. The Great Indian Dream is a manifestation of Dr. MalayChaudhuri's dream.Arindam Chaudhuri is the Hony. Dean at the Centre for Economic Research and Advanced Studies atIIPM, India's leading B-School. He is also the founder of the Planman Group which has business interestsin Consulting, Media and Entertainment and the Editor-in-Chief of The Sunday Indian-the only newsmagazine in the world that comes out in 14 languages. The author of Planning India as well as thebestselling books, Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch and The Great Indian Dream, he teachesLeadership and National Economic Planning at IIPM. His public seminars on Leadership are a rage withthousands attending them.Since 2001 he has been annually presenting a much-wanted 'AlternativeBudget' programme on TV, on the day before the budget is announced. He has won numerous awards forhis work and in 2004, at the age of 32, he was selected as an advisor to the consultative committee of thePlanning Commission of India in the Education & Social sectors.Under the banner of Planman MotionPictures he has made several highly acclaimed films and was awarded the National Award for Faltu in
2008 and The Last Lear in 2009. He is also the founder of the charity, Aurobindo Chaudhuri MemorialGreat Indian Dream Foundation, which works in the areas of health,education and employment.