TIME’s emerging leaders feature Bhim Army's Chief, 5 Indian-origin people
TIME's magazine released its 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future, expanding TIME’s flagship of the most influential people in the world.
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The annual list of 100 “emerging leaders who are shaping the future” includes five Indian-origin personalities, including Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and UK’s finance minister Rishi Sunak.
Dan Macsai, the editorial director of the TIME100, said, “Everyone on this list is poised to make history. And in fact, many already have,”
Other Indian-origin personalities on the list are Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, doctor and Executive Director of nonprofit Get Us PPE, Shikha Gupta and founder of nonprofit Up solve, Rohan Pavuluri. Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad is also on the list.
Rishi Sunak’s profile in the TIME feature says that "a little over a year ago, the 40-year old was an “unknown junior minister in the British government” but after he was named to lead Britain’s Treasury last year, he “quickly became the benevolent face of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, approving large handouts for many citizens whose jobs were disrupted by the virus.”
On Apoorva Mehta, 34, the TIME profile said that in the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Instacart “faced a tidal wave of orders, as people with means opted en masse to pay the service’s workers to buy groceries for them.” Mehta describes that period as a “wartime moment,” it added.
TIME said Gupta and her team stepped up to meet the growing demand for personal protective equipment for healthcare professionals at a time when there was a “leadership vacuum” from the White House.
“In a crisis, small acts can make a big impact. And in extraordinary times, ordinary people, driven by service, can do extraordinary things. The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were some of the darkest in America’s history. A leadership vacuum from the White House contributed to health care professionals across the country lacking the personal protective equipment they needed to stay safe and save lives,” it said.
Gupta, who “wasn’t on the White House Task Force” or a governor or member of Congress, took action to solve the problem.
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Gupta leads the Get Us PPE organization and along with a group of medical professionals and team members, the organization helped distribute more than 6.5 million pieces of PPE to frontline workers.
Pavuluri is the 25-year founder of the free online tool that helps users fill out bankruptcy forms on their own.
TIME said that as the COVID-19 pandemic brought varied economic hardships to Americans, filing for personal bankruptcy was seen as an effective way to eliminate debt but entailed high legal costs and complex paperwork.
Up solve, which Pavuluri founded in 2018, has till date helped American users relieve more than USD 300 million in debt, the TIME profile of him said.
“We’ve found a way to use technology to address a civil rights injustice at scale,” Pavuluri said in the TIME profile.
-PTC News
