Asian Window » Public intellectuals http://www.asianwindow.com Your ticket to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the rest of South Asia Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:16:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Top 100 intellectuals http://www.asianwindow.com/lists/top-100-intellectuals/ http://www.asianwindow.com/lists/top-100-intellectuals/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 05:24:56 +0000 asianwindow http://asianwindow.wordpress.com/?p=1382 The Prospect/Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the world’s top 100 “public intellectuals” — “the thinkers who are shaping the tenor of our time” — has nine from this part of the world.

The criteria to make the list, says FP, could not be more simple: Candidates must be living and still active in public life. They must have shown distinction in their particular field as well as an ability to influence wider debate, often far beyond the borders of their own country.

India:
1: Historian Ramachandra Guha
2: Political psychologist Ashis Nandy
3: Environmentalist Sunita Narain
4: Economist-Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen
5: Journalist author Fareed Zakaria
6: Novelist Salman Rushdie
7: San Diego-based neuroscientist VS Ramachandran

Pakistan: Lawyer-politician Aitzaz Ahsan

Bangladesh: Microfinance guru Mohammed Yunus

China has four.

Click here for the full list, to vote your selection or to add a candidate.

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