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[LosingNow]

Vikram Akula..

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186828,00.html

BTW, no Amitabh or Shah Rukh or Laxmi Mittal. Surprising

[Blwe_torch]

Laxmi Mittal should have definitely made it.
But these Times guys are whimsical.
They can put some of us to shame!

[Sahir]

Interesting, indeed.  Nandan Nilekani, chairman of infosys, made the list this year.  Looks like Aishwarya was unable to stay on the list this year.  I think a couple of years ago BKS Iyengar and Atal Vajpayee were also on the list.  However, still no signs of Mittal or Azim Premji...probably just a matter of time.  I bet they just keep rotating and eventually most of the highly influencial will make it at some point or another.

[feverpitch]

have any of you guys ever worked in a newspaper/magazine? then you would know how these annual lists are prepared... a bunch of guys sit around, and discuss whom to put in there and how the name will boost their brand equity. so some names are thrown in to increase the whimsical quotient; some to appeal to the future aspirants; some to fulfill 'quotas' [like ethnicity/race/religion etc]; some to reflect current affairs, even if they have a standpoint quite different from the one espoused by the magazine ... but all need to be somehow fit into a broad pattern.

this pattern, similar to advertising [all such lists are basically vehicles of advertising], is meant to create aspirations, or to apply balm to social guilt...