Mumbai: Indians are making headlines, and quite globally at that! Time magazine has come out with its list of Asians who have shaped history over the past 60 years, and there's cause to cheer, for there are eight Indians on that list.
Internationally renowned Time magazine has compiled a list of 57 Asians, who have shaped the course of history over the past six decades. And that list names eight Indians, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mother Teresa.
On Time's list of honour are master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar, controversial novelist Salman Rushdie and Indian-born Queen lead singer Farrokh Balsara or Freddie Mercury.
Two Indian corporate czars have found a place in Asia's leading business leaders list. Infosys-founder and chief mentor Narayana Murthy is an obvious entry when it comes to Indian entrepreneurs. Sixty- year old Murthy, who founded Infosys in 1981, has seen his company grow from a seven-employee firm in two and a half decades to a name to reckon with in the global technology industry.
Man of Steel and Non-Resident Indian tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is also part of this elite club. The man, who acquired Arcelor to head the world's largest steel-maker earlier this year, is now one of India's best-known industrialists. Time magazine associates Mittal's boldness and spectacular wealth with 'India's growing financial might'.
And finally, Time recognizes Amartya Sen, the first Asian ever to win the Nobel Prize in Economics as "The first economist-philosopher, whose work has consciously touched the lives of the poorest of the poor".
From setting path-breaking corporate trends to pioneering economic techniques for famine relief, Indians seem to have made their mark on the global stage.
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