New Delhi, May 24 (UNI) TIME magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of 2022 includes industrialist Gautam Adani, Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy, and human rights activist Khurram Parvez.
The list, according to the announcement made on Monday, also includes Indian American Bela Bajaria, the head of Global TV at Netflix.
The list has been divided into six categories – Icons, Pioneers, Titans, Artists, Leaders and Innovators.
Adani, who is among the ‘Titans’, was once regional business now spans airports, private ports, solar and thermal power, and consumer goods, his profile by TIME read.
About the Indian billionaire the magazine stats: “Like many countries that have in the past created global conglomerates this way, India is also undergoing an unprecedented concentration of economic and political power that reinforce one another. If Modi symbolizes the second, Adani is the poster boy of the first, as he competes with Warren Buffett to be the world’s fifth-richest person. With Modi’s stated goal of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2025, Adani’s journey may have only just begun.”
Nundy and Parvez were both featured on the list of “Leaders”.
“Often the legal world is seen as an insular realm of stiff shirts and dry arguments. Karuna Nundy, however, is not just a lawyer but also a public activist who ably – and bravely – uses her voice both inside and outside the courtroom to bring about change,” the magazine wrote about the Supreme Court lawyer.
“She is a champion of women’s rights who has advocated for the reform of antirape laws and fought cases relating to sexual harassment in the workplace,” the profile read.
“Starled and most deeply honoured to be on #time100, with and for the multitudes of people, the court systems, the lawyers the movements and the rights I represent. Thank you to each of you who has offered support along the way, you know who you are,” Nundy tweeted on Monday evening after the finding her name in the list.
About Parvez, who is chairperson of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, journalist Rana Ayyub wrote for TIME: “The soft-spoken Khurram is almost a modern-day David who gave a voice to families that lost their children to enforced disappearances, allegedly by the Indian state. Khurram is the story and the storyteller of the insurgency and the betrayal of the people of Kashmir.”
“He had to be silenced, for his was a voice that resounded around the globe for his fierce fight against human-rights violations and injustices in the Kashmir region,” the profile stats.
The list of 100 people includes name of top global leaders such as US President Joe Biden, Russian Pesident Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Chinese President Xi Jinping.
