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Shahrukh Khan and Sonia Gandhi in Top 50 Worlds Most Powerful List
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Wow! That is quite a revelation. I never knew Shah Rukh was a bigger brand than Osama Bin Laden. And Sonia Gandhi for her fluent Hindi speaking abilities is the 17th most powerful person in the world. She is the queen of Indian democracy and Shah Rukh the king of Bollywood. Yeah right!

Although India’s political scene is riven by factions, Congress remains the strongest national force, and the Italian-born widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi rules it unchallenged. In the world’s largest democracy, she’s queen.

Why exactly is she the queen? Just because she has Gandhi as her last name? When did India become a monarchy? Oh! Please. She did not win any major election. The credit for 2004 election should go to the Communists for tying up with Congress and forming NDA. This alliance exists because BJP exists. That cannot be treated as a victory. It is more a ploy to defeat BJP.

Coming to Shah Rukh, I got one word -WTF. That is actually three but, I don’t think Shah Rukh is more powerful than Osama Bin Laden. Osama can bring down towers. What can Shah Rukh do? Dard-E-Disco.

Other than the Indians on the list, every other name is in order. The list is mostly dominated by Americans with You-Know-Who topping the list.



1: Barack Obama
2: Hu Jintao
3: Nicolas Sarkozy
4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate
7: Gordon Brown
8: Angela Merkel
9: Vladimir Putin
10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
12: Kim Jong Il
13-14: The Clintons
15: Timothy Geithner
16: Gen. David Petraeus
17: Sonia Gandhi
18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
19: Warren Buffett
20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
21: Nuri al-Maliki
22-23: The Philanthropists
24: Nancy Pelosi
25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
26: Mike Duke
27: Rahm Emanuel
28: Eric Schmidt
29: Jamie Dimon
30-31: Friends of Barack
32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
33: Rex Tillerson
34: Steve Jobs
35: John Lasseter
36: Michael Bloomberg
37: Pope Benedict XVI
38: Katsuaki Watanabe
39: Rupert Murdoch
40: Jeff Bezos
41: Shahrukh Khan
42: Osama bin Laden
43: Hassan Nasrallah
44: Dr. Margaret Chan
45: Carlos Slim Helú
46: The Dalai Lama
47: Oprah Winfrey
48: Amr Khaled
49: E. A. Adeboye
50: Jim Rogers