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Anna Hazare, Azim Premji in List of Top Global Thinkers
Bangalore: Software czar Azim Premji and anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare are among five Indians who figure in the Foreign Policy magazine's list of Top 100 Global Thinkers that is dominated by revolutionaries who have been the driving force behind the Arab Spring.
The list features US President Barack Obama, who is ranked 11th among the top 100 global thinkers, and also includes writer-activist Arundhati Roy, poverty researcher Deepa Narayan and economist Arvind Subramanian.
1. Azim Premji's
Identified as India's Bill Gates, Azim Premji is ranked 14th, just below Bill and Melinda Gates. "It is not just because of Azim Premji's enormous wealth that he is compared to the American technologist turned philanthropist," the Foreign Policy magazine says.
It is Premji's unprecedented philanthropy that recently has borne out the Gates comparison it adds. "Through his contributions, Premji is at the forefront of a rising tide of Indian philanthropy, with billionaire executives such as Shiv Nadar, founder of the technology company HCL, and Sunil Bharti Mittal, of the business conglomerate Bharti Enterprises, often listed in the same cohort," it writes.
