Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 28

Four Indians have figured in Time magazine’s list of ‘The 100 Most-Influential People’.

Entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal, Indian-American business executive Satya Nadella, film actress Deepika Padukone and Indian cricket team’s captain Virat Kohli have found their way to Time’s latest issue.

In Kohli’s profile — written by Sachin Tendulkar — Kohli has been called a household name and a champion in cricket. “Even back in 2008, his hunger for runs and consistency was remarkable, something that has become the hallmark of his game,” Sachin wrote while recollecting the moments around a decade back when Kohli led the Indian Under-19 cricket team to win the World Cup.

A piece on Deepika’s contribution has been written by American actor Vin Diesel. “So often in the entertainment industry, we deal in stereotypes, and people get stuck in certain markets. Deepika is the best the Earth has to offer. She’s not just here to represent India; she’s here to represent the world,” Diesel wrote.

Sachin Bansal, the executive chairman of Indian e-commerce company Flipkart, has written on Ola’s co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal. “After all, he co-founded Ola, one of the world’s largest ride-sharing companies, scaled it to more than 100 Indian cities, empowered millions of driver-partners and commuters, and is a flag bearer for India’s consumer-tech ecosystem — all by the age of 32,” Bansal noted. Ola has become one of the first home-grown tech companies to meaningfully expand outside India.

Satya Nadella, an Indian-American business executive, has been added for restoring Microsoft’s spirit of innovation. “Growing up in India, Satya Nadella fell in love with cricket, a sport whose grace comes from melding stars into a cohesive and harmonic team,” Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane University and a former managing editor of Time, noted. Since becoming CEO of Microsoft in 2014, Nadella has used those principles to restore the company’s spirit of innovation, Isaacson has written.

Earlier, in the list of contenders, the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also figured. However, he could not make it to the final list. PM Modi had been named among the contenders last year as well as in 2016. (With agency inputs)