The High and Mighty 2023: 50 Power People

Chronicling those whose influence resonates in our personal and professional lives

Left: The sacred ‘Sengol’, symbolizing the transfer of power from the British to India. Right: India Today’s high and mighty list

“For thine is the kingdom,” says the Lord’s Prayer, “power, and glory, forever and ever.” Let’s take an excerpt first: power and glory. This is one possible measure of a person’s achievements in life, but it Only one explores the outer periphery of the inner journey. The 50 people in our high and mighty list were not born on another planet. Nor were they in the three supplementary list on politics, officers and Indians making it big abroad . They are ordinary mortals, and yet extraordinary. Their empires, small and large, were each built by a special blend of insight, will, imagination, tenacity… and sometimes by sheer force of personality. Some of them from obscurity come out where they are. Monica Shergill, The Content Head, Netflix, grew up watching B&W television in Meerut. Nithin and Nikhil Kamath Zerodha has children of a bank employee, Moderate Bengaluru middle class. Narendra Modi’The past is legendary. even Mukesh Ambani have seen life in a Mumbai chawl and Kumar Mangalam Birla After the untimely demise of his father, he had no choice but to grow up fast. Both Mukesh and Kumar Mangalam grew their inherited business manifold. Every individual journey starts from scratch. In Rahul GandhiTalking about it, it started with the Bharat Jodo Yatra last year. Fate traverses a difficult path between flux and certainty. A Gautam Adani Became the second richest man in the world, but then came his toughest challenge. Even billionaires should expect the unexpected. Under a sky recently darkened by war and pestilence, “for ever and ever” is straight imagery. But this is the powernama of the present.

50 High and Mighty Personalities

1. Mukesh Ambani

2. Kumar Mangalam Birla

3. Ratan Dada

4. Sajjan Jindal

5. Sunil Bharti Mittal

6. N. Chandrasekaran

7. Gautam Adani

8. rise box

9. Azim Award and Rishad Award

10. Amitabh Bachchan

11. Anil Agarwal

12. Nandan Nilekani

13. Shiv Nadar and Roshni Nadar Malhotra

14. RC Bhargava

15. Ajay Piramal

16. Sanjeev Puri

17. Rahul Bhatia

18. Nita Ambani

19. Naresh Trehan

20. Adar Poonawala

21. Shahrukh Khan

22. Anand Mahindra

23. Sanjeev Goenka

24. Virat Kohli

25. Baba Ramdev & Acharya Balkrishna

26. Kalanithi Maran

27. Jai Shah

28. Dilip Shanghvi

29. SS Rajamouli

30. SN Subrahmanyan

31. call majumdar shaw

32. Harish Salve

33. Nithin Kamath & Nikhil Kamath

34. Shri Shri Ravishankar

35. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

36. Amit Agarwal

37. Monica Shergill

38. Sushant Sriram and Aparna Purohit

39. Sameer Jain

40. Deependra Goyal

41. Deepika Padukone

42. Sudhir Agarwal

43. Mahendra Mohan Gupta & Sanjay Gupta

44. Byju Ravindran and Divya Gokulnath

45. Aditya Chopra

46. Pawan Munjal

47. Harmanpreet Kaur

48. Bhavish Aggarwal

49. Alia Bhatt

50. Karan Johar