India's 50 most powerful people
I found this article recently published by Business Week. The article is supposedly about 50 most powerful indians. When my eyes first fell on the article, I thought being a Business Week article, I could catch up on who's who of the people shaping up India's business future.
The article did carry a list of very predictable political and business faces (Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Kamal Nath, Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Sunil Bharti Mittal, to name a few) who have contributed a lot to the success of indian business. Traversing through the list, it was quite annoying to see names like Mayawati and Sheila Dikshit. But then, the real twist came when Amitabh Bhachan was listed after Mukesh Ambani. Then Rajnikanth. Then Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Akshay kumar for christ sakes. Considering that Bollywood is also an industry in itself, they could have atleast named a few movie directors, musicians, art directors worthy of note. By then, the standard of the article was so predictable that I could see Sachin Tendulkar on the cards up front. Very predictably, followed the names of cricketers and a few other sportsmen. The last few were fashion designers whose name I have never even heard of before.
Some of the people listed were not even worth of a place in the top 50 people in their own field. After reading the article, I could hear the writers of the article laughing out loud: "Gotcha! We never said that they were 50 most powerful business men".
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