• Bhim Army Chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad and five Indian-origin personalities have been featured in the 2021 TIME100 Next.
• TIME100 Next 2021 is the second edition of the annual list of Time magazine’s 100 ‘emerging leaders who are shaping the future.’
• Bhim Army is a dalit rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh to help Dalits escape poverty through education. It was founded by Satish Kumar, Vijay Ratan Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad in 2015.

The five Indian-origin persons in Time100 Next list are:

1. Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde
2. UK’s Finance Minister Rishi Sunak
3. Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta
4. Get Us PPE executive director and doctor Shikha Gupta
5. Founder of nonprofit Upsolve’s Rohan Pavuluri