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| TIME100: Mukesh Ambani, Hasan Minhaj, Arundhati Katju And Menaka Guruswamy |
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04/18/2019
Mukesh Ambani’s father Dhirubhai was a visionary in Indian business,
whose Reliance Industries conglomerate pioneered ways of targeting
global scale. But Ambani’s vision is now even more ambitious than that
of the father whose blessings he unfailingly invokes at the launch of
each initiative. The scale of his Reliance Jio mobile-data network, which has already
connected over 280 million people in India with low-cost 4G, is
impressive by any standard. But what is truly jaw-dropping is the way it
will allow Reliance to potentially dominate a staggering array of new
businesses. When its enormous retail division is married to the Jio
network for e-commerce, it will give Amazon a run for its money. When
the media entities Ambani owns begin leveraging Jio, he could create
India’s default entertainment destination. The mind boggles at the
possibilities. Back in 2003, Ambani promised Indians in a well-known advertising
tagline that his company would “put the world in the palm of your hand.â€
It won’t be long before he delivers on that promise. Mahindra is the chairman of business conglomerate the Mahindra Group When I first met Hasan Minhaj in 2014, we had just been hired to work together at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We
were both fresh-faced kids trying to find our voice in the fast-paced
world of late-night television. Fast-forward five years later, Hasan is
still as fresh-faced as ever, but his voice booms across screens around
the world, thanks to his groundbreaking Netflix show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. After hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and releasing his stand-up special Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King in
2017, the opportunity for a late-night show of his own wasn’t just
obvious, it was necessary. We’ve needed Hasan’s voice since Donald Trump
came down that golden escalator and turned immigrants and Muslims into
his targets. See, Hasan is a first-generation, Indian-American Muslim. But Hasan
also loves the NBA, struggles with a “crippling†sneaker habit and
speaks fluent hip-hop. Patriot Act is the manifestation of
Hasan’s whip-smart commentary, charisma and sincerity. It’s also a
consistent reminder that Hasan is America. And America is Hasan. Noah is the host of The Daily Show Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy By Priyanka Chopra “I am what I am so take me as I am,†said the
Chief Justice of India as the Supreme Court struck down Section 377 of
the Indian Penal Code in a unanimous vote. An outdated legacy of the
British colonization of India, Section 377 rendered all sexual
activities “against the order of nature†punishable by law. This landmark judgment, overturning a 157-year-old law, was the
outcome of a long-term campaign orchestrated by two amazing
public-interest litigators, Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy. The
fight has been hard. The LGBTQ+ community has battled on both legal and
social fronts for decades-—for their fundamental rights, for privacy,
for dignity, for safety and for love. Armed with a well-planned strategy that went beyond their
well-researched legal arguments, Arundhati and Menaka became beacons of
hope for the Indian LGBTQ+ community. Their perseverance and commitment
led an entire community to a historic win by humanizing their struggles
and giving them the freedom to love. As the Chief Justice said,
“Constitutional morality cannot be martyred at the altar of social
morality.†Arundhati and Menaka have helped take a giant step for LGBTQ+ rights
in the world’s largest democracy. In their committed fight for justice,
they have shown us that we as a society must continue to make progress,
even after laws are changed, and that we must make an effort to
understand, accept and love. It is who we are as people. Chopra is an award-winning actor
Hasan Minhaj
By Trevor Noah
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