Singh, Tendulkar, Aishwarya among Nine Indians in ‘Time 100’
Nine Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and economist Amartya Sen, have appeared in Time magazine’s annual list of 100 most influential people with Bollywood sensation Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan topping its 100 Alumnae list, reported IANS.
Singh is at the 19th spot in the Leaders list which is headed by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and in which US president Barack Obama is at the fourth place, report said.
India’s master blaster Sachin Tendulkar gets the 13th place among 25 ‘Heroes’ led by former US president Bill Clinton who was recognized for his role as a fund-raiser and anti-poverty activist, said report.
Actress Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan tops the list of 100 Time Alumane while ophthalmologist at the Arvinda Eye Hospital Dr Perumalsamy Namperumalsamy, 70, is place sixth and recognized for performing cataract surgery since 1976 and having treated 3.6 million surgeries to date-a new one every 15 minutes, report said.
Indian entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw gets the 16th spot among ‘heroes’ for donating $2 million to support health insurance coverage for 100,000 Indian villagers and another$10 million for creating the 1,400-bed Mazumdar-Shaw Cancer Centre in Bangalore.
A paramedic from Toronto, Rahul Singh, who got 22nd place, is recognised for his relief work in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that hit the poor Caribbean nation on Jan 12, while Chetan Bhagat is the lone Indian in the list of Artists headed by extravagantly outfitted singer Lady Gaga, said report.
Nobel prize winner economist Amartya Sen is 20th on the ‘Thinkers’ list and Indian-America doctor and Harvard professor Atul Gwande is fifth on the list of ‘thinkers’ for his contribution to medicine, report said.
(Based on internet reports)
