Question: Which of the following Indian politician is included in the recently released list of Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers?
(a) Arun Jaitley
(b) Narendra Modi
(c) Sushma Swaraj
(d) Manohar Parrikar
Ans:(c)
Related facts:
- On 12 December 2016 Foreign Policy magazine released the list of Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers.
- External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, have been featured in Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
- She is named in the ‘Decision-makers’ category of 14 other notable thinkers including Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau.
- Swaraj was particularly lauded for her role in managing Indian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia in July when jobs were cut and salaries withheld. “From evacuating Indians from Yemen to helping replace lost passports, Swaraj has earned the nickname “the common tweeple’s leader” for her aggressive use of Twitter,”
- The magazine also listed the co-founders of Sampark Foundation the Nayars in ‘the Moguls’ segment for ‘unplugging technology so kids can learn’.
- Other Indians who made it to the global thinkers of 2016 list include, Nitesh Kadyan, Nikhil Kaushik, and Anirudh Sharma of Graviky Labs, an Indian firm that uses polluted air to create art supplies and immunologist Gursaran Prasad Talwar as the inoculation, developed by him could decrease leprosy rates by 65 per cent over three years.
Reference:
https://gt.foreignpolicy.com/2016/?99402caa7f=
https://gt.foreignpolicy.com/2016/category/the-decision-makers?99402caa7f=
https://gt.foreignpolicy.com/2016/profile/sushma-swaraj?99402caa7f=