London: Five Indians are in the race for "the world's most important thinker - 2014". It is a part of a 10-year-old annual global poll conducted by the Prospect magazine.
Its 2014 list has five Indians names. Interestingly, four of them are renowned economists. Nobel award winning economist Amarthya Sen, former financial advisor to the finance minister Kaushik Basu, celebrated economics professor Partha Dasgupta and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan have made it to the nomination list.
The only other entry from India, who is not economist, is writer and activist Arundhati Roy, who is a Booker award winner.
The others in the race are Pope Francis, the supreme religious leader of the Catholics, American Philosopher Thomas Nagel, political scientist Anne - Marie Slaughter, South African businessman Elon Musk, who co-founded online payment service PayPal and well known Burmese writer and historian Thant Myint -U.
Last year's winner Richard Dawkings has failed to make it to the list this year.
The Prospect magazine started it in 2004 only for the top - 100 British public intellectuals and extended it to rest of the World in 2005.
Who are the world's top thinkers?
Vote on who you think should be crowned the world's most important thinker of 2014. Prospect has assembled an international list of leading thinkers to identify those engaging most originally and profoundly with the central questions of the world today, and to provoke debate about the role of intellectuals in public life.
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