With Nummero, the septuagenarian hopes to dispel misinformation and myths surrounding numerology, and solve people's problems. He even plans to set up an institute that would integrate numerology with modern science
J C Chaudhry, the founder of Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) and founder & chairman of Chaudhry Nummero.
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It was sometime in 1984, as a 30-something, that JC Chaudhry became fascinated with numbers. He was visiting his brother-in-law in Haridwar when the former manager at BHEL introduced him to the world of numerology after dinner one day. “He asked me if I was interested in learning something new,” the 72-year-old tells Forbes India. “I said why not?” Back then, Chaudhry was working as the principal of the Model Co-Ed Senior Secondary School in Vikaspuri, New Delhi.
Chaudhry had moved only a few years before that to the capital in search of a better life from the nondescript village of Sevli in Haryana, where his father had run a small textile shop. The family was impoverished so much so that Chaudhry did not own a pair of chappals till he was 12 or a pair of trousers till he went to college. For Chaudhry, who studied botany at the DAV College, Jalandhar, before going on to do a master's in botany from the illustrious Birla Institute of Technology, New Delhi offered a better life.