Icons of India's freedom movement Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, technology czar Narayana Murthy and the messiah of the poor Mother Teresa are on Time magazine's list of Asian heroes who have shaped history over six decades.
NEW DELHI: Icons of India's freedom movement Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, technology czar Narayana Murthy and the messiah of the poor Mother Teresa are on Time magazine's list of Asian heroes who have shaped history over six decades.
In its special anniversary issue, the magazine "chronicles the triumphs and travails of Asia" over 60 years.
"We pray tribute to the remarkable men and women who have shaped these times," the magazine says in its latest edition that will hit the stands on Monday.
Detailing the remarkable nation builders in Asia, it says few nations were blessed with a pair quite like Mahatma Gandhi and his protege Jawaharlal Nehru.
It noted that Gandhi was the extraordinary leader of the world's first successful non-violent movement for Independence from colonial rule.
"Gandhi's unique method of resistance through civil disobedience, allied to talent for organisation, gave the Indian nationalist movement both a saint and a strategist," the magazine says in a write up on the leader.
In the business world, the magazine honours Murthy and non-resident Indian steel baron Lakshmi Mittal.
Noting that Murthy launched an economic revolution, Time says "his wildly successful company had laid the groundwork for the business process -– outsourcing -- that defines globalisation in action".
The boldness and spectacular wealth of the steel czar, the magazine says, reflect India's growing financial might.
"What really cements Mittal's status as the point man for India Inc, and as a hero to his countrymen isn't how he spends his money but how he makes it," Time says.
Taking account of his acquisition of Arcelor, it says "to a nation that 150 years ago was run not by its own government but by a European business, the British East India Company, Mittal is the Indian who is beating the West at its own game".
India's Litte Master Sachin Tendulkar takes the honours in the magazine's list of Athletes and Explorers.
"Being labelled the next (Sir Donald) Bradman has never been as easy honour. But perhaps no batsman has worn the tag with so much grace -- and so deserved it --as Tendulkar," Time says.
Controversial Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, Saint of Calcutta Mother Teresa and economist Amartyan Sen are among other Indians on the honours list.
The magazine describes Sen, the first Indian to win the Noble Prize in Economics as a "philosopher and economist who preaches tolerance to a divided world."
"Amartya Sen is not just an Indian or Asian, not just an economist or philosopher. He is a truly global man, cosmopolitan in his sympathies and universal in his concern for all," it writes.
Others Asian heroes on the list are Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, legendary Afghan warrior Ahmad Shah Massoud, Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama, China's Deng Xiaoping, Myanmar's democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi.
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