Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad along with five Indian-origin personalities featured
on Wednesday in TIME magazine’s list of 100 leaders who “are shaping the future”.
The list is an annual one, named 2021 TIME100 Next. An extension of the TIME100
franchise, the list goes on to feature 100 emerging leaders. The aforementioned
Indian names include figures like Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde, and UK Finance
Minister Rishi Sunak, PTI reported.

Others in the list are Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, Get Us
PPE Executive Director Shikha Gupta, and founder of non-profit organisation
Upsolve, Rohan Pavuluri.

“Everyone on this list is poised to make history.
And in fact, many already have,” PTI quoted TIME100’s editorial director Dan
Macsai as saying.

The magazine gave descriptions to each of these
entries, saying in case of Sunak that from being an “unknown junior minister in
the British government”, he went through remarkable progress as he became the
Treasury for the government, playing his part significantly in the UK government’s
COVID-19 response process.

Vijaya Gadde, on the other hand, was described as “one of Twitter’s most powerful executives”, which, considering her informing
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of former US president Donald Trump’s Twitter account being
suspended, is quite appropriate.

The magazine’s take on the work done by Chandrashekhar
Aazad credits the latter for having organised schooling for the Dalit populace to
escape poverty through education, as well as actively going into Indian
villages and preventing incidents of caste-based violence or setting up
demonstrations against discrimination.