London: Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, actor Aamir Khan and human rights activist Vrinda Grover are the Indians included in Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world list.
Split into five sections – titans, pioneers, leaders, icons and artists – the list covers people from areas including politics, activism, sport, the arts and science, who have been deemed to change the 
world for better or for worse.
According to the Independent, Malala Yousafzai, Barack Obama, Jay-Z and Kim Jong-Un were among the others who were included in the list.
Alongside Jay-Z in the titans section are fashion designer Michael Kors, Vladimir Putin’s close aide Igor Sechin and basketball star Lebron James.
Among those deemed to be pioneers are Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef and the first black president of Brazil’s Supreme Court Joaquim Barbosa.
Malala Yousafzai, who recently enrolled in school in the UK after being shot by the Taliban in her native Pakistan for campaigning for universal education for girls, features as an ‘icon’ in the list, as do Girls creator Lena Dunham, firebrand footballer Mario Balotelli and Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi.
Artists who were included in this year’s list include Lincoln director Steven Spielberg, gay R n B singer Frank Ocean and British twice-Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel.
