RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, actress Priyanka Chopra, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founders of Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been named by Time magazine in its list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’.
Time’s annual list, released on Thursday, includes pioneers like American composer Lin Manuel-Miranda, leaders like IMF head Christine Lagarde and icons like Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
On RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, TIME said, While serving as the youngest chief economist of the IMF from 2003 to 2006, Rajan predicted the subprime crisis that would lead to the Great Recession.
On Priyanka Chopra, who was awarded the Padma Shri this year, Time said she is a “star rising higher” and lauded her “drive, ambition, self-respect, and she knows there’s no substitute for hard work.
In a profile for Mirza, cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar writes that her “confidence, strength and resilience reach beyond tennis” and she has inspired a generation of Indians to pursue their dreams ” and to realize that they can also be the best.
Environmentalist Sunita Narain has been featured in the list for the first time. The Magazine said in her profile that, ‘Hers is a voice that urgently needs to be heard in this era of climate change. It added, despite resistance from many quarters, some of their key recommendations have been embraced by the courts.
Time magazine said Flipkart founders Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal may have come across as arrogant when they told
investors the company they started in 2007 as an online bookstore could be worth USD 100 million in a decade… It said Flipkart now has 75 million users and a USD 13 billion valuation
Time said Indian-born CEO of Google Sundar Pichai has helped change the world… He worked on Google Chrome, Gmail, and Android phones. A great many of us can’t tell which side of a street we’re on without checking Google Maps. actress Priyanka Chopra, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founders of Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been named by Time magazine in its list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’.
Time’s annual list, released on Thursday, includes pioneers like American composer Lin Manuel-Miranda, leaders like IMF head Christine Lagarde and icons like Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
On RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, TIME said, While serving as the youngest chief economist of the IMF from 2003 to 2006, Rajan predicted the subprime crisis that would lead to the Great Recession.
On Priyanka Chopra, who was awarded the Padma Shri this year, Time said she is a “star rising higher” and lauded her “drive, ambition, self-respect, and she knows there’s no substitute for hard work.
In a profile for Mirza, cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar writes that her “confidence, strength and resilience reach beyond tennis” and she has inspired a generation of Indians to pursue their dreams ” and to realize that they can also be the best.
Environmentalist Sunita Narain has been featured in the list for the first time. The Magazine said in her profile that, ‘Hers is a voice that urgently needs to be heard in this era of climate change. It added, despite resistance from many quarters, some of their key recommendations have been embraced by the courts.
Time magazine said Flipkart founders Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal may have come across as arrogant when they told investors the company they started in 2007 as an online bookstore could be worth USD 100 million in a decade… It said Flipkart now has 75 million users and a USD 13 billion valuation
Time said Indian-born CEO of Google Sundar Pichai has helped change the world… He worked on Google Chrome, Gmail, and Android phones. A great many of us can’t tell which side of a street we’re on without checking Google Maps.