Sonia,Ratan,Mukesh in Time power shortlist

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and industrialists Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani are among the finalists for Time magazines 100 most influential people of 2009.....

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and industrialists Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani are among the finalists for Time magazines 100 most influential people of 2009 that also includes US President Barack Obama.

The first African-American President of the US is currently ranked 13th,while the top position is held by a person who goes by the name Moot,the founder of 4chan.org,a website for posting images and discussions anonymously.

Sonia is ranked 43 ahead of Tata (102),and Ambani (169),who the publication referred to as petrol prince.

The 203 finalists includes seven people of Indian origin.

The four others are are cola-queen Indra Nooyi of Pepsico,movie moghul Ronnie Screwvala of UTV,public face for Washingtons Troubled Asset Relief Programme Neel Kashkari,and Harvard-educated management consultant Ram Charan.

Besides,Slumdog Millionaire-fame British filmmaker Danny Boyle,who hit the headlines with the Oscar-winning movie shot in Mumbai slums,is also among the finalists. Time would publish the final list later in the year.

In a continuing online poll on Times website,Screwvala is currently top-ranked among Indians at 33rd overall place,Nooyi is at 89,Kashkari 187 and Charan 193.

The site of Moot (pseudonym),the highest ranked person at present,is said to have been started in 2003 by a then 15-year-old student from New York.