Updated: September 23, 2020 3:37:14 pm
However, the magazine has no kind words for Modi, saying that while “almost all of India’s prime ministers come from the nearly 80% of the population that is Hindu, only Modi has ruled as if no one else mattered.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appeared on TIME magazine’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World for the fourth time since he took office in 2014. However, Prime Minister Modi, who was named in the Leaders category Along with US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, he was not the only Indian to make the coveted list this year.
From Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana to Bilkis, the 82-year-old grandmother who relentlessly protested the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, the list includes five Indian pioneers who have made waves in the past year.
Here are the Indians named in TIME magazine’s list of the ‘100 Most Influential People of 2020’:
Narendra modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was included among some of the most powerful leaders in the world this year, after he failed to make TIME magazine’s list in 2018 and 2019. However, the magazine has no kind words for Modi and says that “almost all of India’s prime ministers come from almost 80% of the population that is Hindu, only Modi has ruled as if no one else mattered.
Bilkis was one of the most prominent faces during the protests against the CAA at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. (Express photo by Somya Lakhani)
Bilkis
This year’s TIME list also included the 82-year-old Bilkis, who was one of the most prominent faces during the anti-AAC protests at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi earlier this year. She was among the many women who gathered at the protest site every day during the first months of 2020, sparking similar demonstrations in neighborhoods across the country.
EXPLAINED | Who is Bilkis, Shaheen Bagh’s ‘dadi’ listed among TIME’s most influential people in 2020?
Dr Ravindra Gupta, virologist at University College London, in his laboratory on February 28, 2019. For the second time since the global epidemic began, a patient appears to have been cured of infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. the scientists reported Feb. 26. “I think this changes the game a little bit,” Gupta said. (Jane Stockdale / The New York Times)
Ravindra gupta
Professor Ravindra Gupta led a study that led to the second man in history being cured of HIV in London last year. Soon after, the University of Cambridge appointed him Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Adam Catillejo, the 40-year-old man who became the second person in the world to defeat HIV, paid a moving tribute to Gupta, calling him “thoughtful and compassionate.”
Sundar Pichai at Google for India 2020 virtual event (Source: Google for India event screenshot)
Sundar pichai
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has also been named one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 by TIME. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon praised Pichai’s work ethic and vision in a tribute written for the latest issue of the magazine. “The unique American story of Sundar Pichai, who emigrated from India as a young adult and worked his way to become CEO of a $ 1 trillion corporation, represents the best of what we aspire to for our society,” Dimon wrote.
(Photo: Ayushmann Khurrana / Instagram)
Ayushmann Khurrana
Ayushmann Khurrana was the only Indian actor to make the list this year. He was named in the ‘Artist’ category, along with several internationally renowned musicians and performers such as writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Grammy-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and fashion designer and pop culture icon Dapper. Dan. The piece written by actor Deepika Padukone says that “only a small percentage of people see their dreams come true” in India, “and Ayushmann Khurrana is one of them.” She praises her talent and hard work, but also, more importantly, “patience, perseverance, and courage.”
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