Washington:
Bollywood
star
Aamir
Khan
has
been
featured
on
one
of
the
seven
special
covers
of
the
Time
magazine
listing
the
world's
100
most
influential
people.
The
list
includes
Finance
Minister
P
Chidambaram,
Delhi
lawyer
Vrinda
Grover
and
California's
Indian-American
attorney
general
Kamala
Harris
besides
teenaged
Pakistani
activist
Malala
Yousafzai
and
US
President
Barack
Obama.
Like
Aamir
Khan,
Malala
Yousafzai,
"the
Pakistani
schoolgirl
whose
advocacy
for
girls'
rights
is
just
beginning" is
also
featured
on
one
of
the
special
covers.
Aamir
Khan
(48),
the
Bollywood
star
who
wins
praise
from
composer
AR
Rahman,
"has
been
chosen
for
using
his
influence
to
raise
social
awareness
in
India."
"In
a
world
of
false
diplomacy
and
evasiveness,
Aamir
is
a
straightforward
man," writes
Rahman
noting,
"He
uses
his
gifts
as
a
charmer
to
give
his
audience
the
most
bitter
medicine.
Hypnotized,
we
take
it
without
complaint."
"Aamir
has
started
a
movement
that
will
help
change
the
world
in
which
Indians
live.
Jai
ho!"
adds
the
Academy
Award-winning
composer.
Described
as
"a
trusted
counsellor
to
the
ruling
Congress
Party's
Gandhi
family,
Chidambaram's
experience
is
unsurpassed",
writes
Time.
Playing
"an
important
role
as
India
opened
its
economy" in
the
1990s,
"his
reform
record
has
been
spotty,"
Time
says
and
suggests,
"To
land
India's
top
job,
he
needs
to
revive
his
country's
economic
fortunes.
He
may
also
need
to
adopt
a
more
Indian
style."
Delhi
lawyer
Vrinda
Grover's
"work
as
a
human-rights
lawyer
and
advocate
for
women's
rights
has
meant
that
she
presses
down
pretty
hard",
writes
Time.
"Her
determination
to
force
an
often
recalcitrant
political
and
legal
system
to
change
was
evident
in
these
past
few
heated
months,
as
a
particularly
tragic
rape
in
Delhi
brought
women's
rights
center
stage," it
notes.
Kamala
Harris
(48),
is
described
as
a
jurist
to
watch
by
Nancy
Pelosi,
the
first
woman
to
serve
as
US
Speaker
of
the
House.
"In
2010,
after
seven
years
as
San
Francisco
district
attorney,
she
became
the
first
African
American,
first
South
Asian
and
first
woman
to
be
elected
California
attorney
general,"
Pelosi
writes,
predicting,
"As
a
new
generation
of
women
picks
up
the
mantle
of
progress,
she
will
always
be
among
the
first
to
stand
up
and
step
forward."
IANS