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Arindam Chaudhuri (Template:Lang-bn) is an Indian economist, author and the director of IIPM Think Tank at Indian Institute of Planning and Management. He has collected three National Film Awards as the producer of three award-winning movies.

Biography

Arindam is the son of Malayendra Chaudhuri, who founded the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) in 1973. He received his post graduate diploma in Planning and Entrepreneurship from IIPM in 1992 He later became the Honorary Dean for the IIPM Centre for Economic Research and Advanced Studies. Also in 2004, Arindam Chaudhuri was appointed as a member (social and agricultural sector) of the Consultative Committee for the Planning Commission, Government of India. He is the founder of Planman Consulting and Great Indian Dream Foundation, a social sector organisation. He is also the owner of the Delhi franchise of the i1 Super Series motor sports league.

The film Rok Sako To Rok Lo was Arindam's debut film venture. Planman Motion Pictures went on to produced Bengali movies Sanjhbatir Rupkathara (2002), Dosar (2006) and the National Film Award winner Faltu (2006). Planman also produced two more Hindi movies Mithya (2008), starring Ranvir Shorey, Neha Dhupia, Naseeruddin Shah and Vinay Pathak. Another movie produced by them, The Last Lear was awarded the National Film Award for Best Film in English in the year 2009 by the Government of India.

In February 2011, a book excerpt on Arindam Chaudhuri published in the Caravan magazine and the chapter from the book (The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India) on which the excerpt was based, were removed following a preliminary injunction order by a court against Caravan, author Siddhartha Deb and the book publisher Penguin Books, in response to a lawsuit citing "grave harassment and injury". On Feb 15, 2013 Mr Chaudhari was able to get 73 URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) which were critical of Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) blocked by a court order in India, including that of University Grants Commission (UGC) page with guidelines on IIPM, links carrying such content on newspaper, consumer forum and satire websites, as well as online news portals.

Awards

• Best Hindi Film for Do Dooni Char, National Film Awards, 2011.
• Best Feature Film in English for The Last Lear, National Film Awards, 2007.
• Best Film on Family Welfare for Faltu, National Film Awards, 2006.
• The Priyadarshini Memorial Award for Excellent contribution to Management from the Priyadarshini Academy, Mumbai in 2006
• Example to Youth award from the District Rotaract Council, a part of Rotary International, in 2004

Controversy

The University Grants Commission of India (UGC) issued a public notice stating that IIPM was not a university recognized by it, and that it could not confer or grant degrees. In January 2013, a court in Gwalior ordered the Department of Telecommunications to block several URLs of several with content critical of IIPM. The blocked webpages included the public notice on the UGC website. Other blocked URLs included content from The Indian Express, The Economic Times, The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, Outlook Magazine, FirstPost, Rediff, The Caravan Magazine, as well as satirical websites such as Faking News and The UnReal Times. Chaudhuri had earlier got an injunction from a court in Silchar against the publishing of an article on him and IIPM in Caravan magazine. This censorship was called a clear abuse of the judicial process by legal experts in the media, and led to a huge outrage in traditional as well as social media. The online community responded with a counter-offensive against IIPM and Chaudhuri, calling attention worldwide to what the institute wanted purged. Chaudhuri defended the legal action against UGC and the media, saying that the UGC and AICTE are "full of bribe-seeking corrupt officials".The Dabra court near Gwalior ordered to unblock the links which were blocked previously on the basics of the review petition filled by the DoT.

Publications

Arindam Chaudhuri has authored five books:

• Discover the diamond in you
• Count your chickens before they hatch
• The Great Indian Dream: Restoring pride to a nation betrayed
• Thorns to Competition
• Cult: Leadership & Business Strategy
• News report about DoT blocking sites talking about UGC public notice

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12. "Taking Indian ideas to the West". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 5 October 2005.
13. Best Film in Family Welfare
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37. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/iipm-hits-out-at-ugc-experts-say-blocking-websites-wont-help/373221-11.html

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