Including RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founders of Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal tennis star Sania Mirza, actress Priyanka Chopra, are in list of the '100 Most Influential People in the World'.

Rajan as "India's most knowledgable banker," Time said he is among a rare breed of "economic seers" who "steered" India through the global crisis and fallout, "playing a large role in making it one of the emerging-market stars of the moment.

For Saina Mirza, Sachin Tendulkar writes that her "confidence, strength and resilience reach beyond tennis" and she has inspired a generation of Indians to pursue their dreams " and to realize that they can also be the best."

On Chopra, who was awarded the Padma Shri this year, actor Dwayne Johnson said she is a "star rising higher" and lauded her "drive, ambition, self-respect, and she knows there's no substitute for hard work."

Time said Flipkart founders Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal may have come across as arrogant when they told investors the company they started in 2007 as an online bookstore could be worth USD 100 million in a decade.