This
year's
BBC
100
women
list
marks
the
fourth
year
of
the
season.
They
are
once
again
a
mixture
of
high-profile
and
influential
women
including
entrepreneurs,
engineers,
sportswomen,
business
women,
fashion
icons
and
artistes.
Sunny,
who
is
celebrating
her
fifth
year
anniversary
in
Bollywood,
started
in
Indian
showbiz
by
participating
in
the
controversial
reality
TV
show
"Bigg
Boss" in
2011.
She
went
on
to
star
in
Bollywood
films
like
"Jism
2",
"Jackpot"
and
"Ek
Paheli
Leela".
Apart
from
the
actress,
the
list
also
includes
four
Indian
names
-
Gouri
Chindarkar
(Sangli),
Mallika
Srinivasan
(Chennai),
Neha
Singh
(Mumbai)
and
Saalumarada
Thimmakka
(Karnataka),
read
a
statement.
Chindarkar
is
a
20-year-old
computer
engineering
student
from
Sangli,
Maharashtra.
She
is
one
of
the
first
children
in
India
to
experience
a
unique
learning
experience
now
known
as
'School
in
the
Cloud'.
Srinivasan,
57,
is
the
CEO
of
Tractors
and
Farm
Equipment
Ltd.
She
is
known
as
the
'Tractor
Queen'
of
India
and
has
grown
her
family
company
into
the
third
largest
tractor
manufacturer
in
the
world.
Singh
is
a
34-year-old
actor-writer
who
founded
a
movement
to
encourage
women
to
walk
the
streets
in
Mumbai
to
defy
harassment.
Thimmakka
is
a
105-year-old
environmentalist
from
Karnataka
who
has
planted
more
than
8,000
trees
in
80
years,
a
project
which
first
started
in
response
to
social
ridicule
at
not
being
able
to
have
children.
She
is
the
oldest
woman
on
the
BBC
100
women
list.
Some
of
this
year's
high
profile
women
include
singer-songwriter
Alicia
Keys;
US
gold
medal
winning
gymnast
Simone
Biles
and
French
politician
Rachida
Dati.