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The Economic Times/ ­- News, Qua, 18 de Abril de 2012
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Mamata Banerjee named among world's
most influential people
NEW YORK: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee has been named among the 100 most
influential people in the world by the prestigious Time
magazine in its 2012 list which also includes US
President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and billionaire investor Warren Buffet. Apart
from Banerjee, advocate Anjali Gopalan, who works
for the rights of gays and the transgendered in India, is
the only other Indian in the list released by the
magazine today. The 2012 list is topped by American
basketball sensation Jeremy Lin. In recent days,
Banerjee's government has been criticised for choice
of newspapers for state and state­-aided libraries and a
professor's arrest over circulation of a cartoon
featuring the chief minister. Time said Banerjee, 57,
spent years struggling on the margins but ultimately
she proved to be the "consummate politician." "Though
much of Indian society remains hidebound in
patriarchy and tradition, strong women still prevail in
the nation's political life. Mamata Banerjee rose to the
fore last year when she and a movement she built from
the grassroots wrested control of her home state of
West Bengal, ending three and a half decades of
sclerotic communist rule," Time said. Referred to by
her supporters as 'Didi', Banerjee was labelled by
critics as a "mercurial oddball and a shrieking street
fighter". Through successive elections, she steadily
expanded her power base while chipping away at
those of her opponents, Time said adding that her
lower­-middle­-class background was no obstacle in a
country "notorious for its dynasties". "She out­-Marxed
the Marxists. And as chief minister of her home state,
she has emerged as a populist woman of action ­-strident
and divisive but poised to play an even greater
role in the world's largest democracy," the magazine
said. On Gopalan, 54, Time said through her work at
the Naz Foundation, she has done more than anyone
else to advance the rights of gays and the
transgendered in India, successfully petitioning the
courts to get rid of a British­-era law against sodomy.
"Gopalan has brought about a revolution in the status
of sexual minorities in India ­-­- and has done so
joyously, dancing," it said. The list comprising people
"who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change
our world," includes Pakistan's first Oscar winner
filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Facebook COO
Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar
Chaudhry. In his commentary on Chaudhry for Time,
former Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan
said he has become the first head of Pakistan's
Supreme Court to attempt to bring the powerful to
justice, taking on the Prime Minister and the President
in an effort to hold them to account. "It's not just the
politicians either. Chaudhry, 63, is also seeking to take
Pakistan's intelligence agencies to task for their
human­-rights abuses," Khan said in the magazine.
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