The Most Powerful Indians in 2017, 51 to 100: Aamir Khan moves up to 61, Chidambaram at 71

Take a look at The Indian Express power list of 2016-17 not just to see who are the most powerful 100 in this country of a billion plus. Look at it, also, to get a sense of how, over the past year, power has changed hands – and how power itself has changed. To take the second change first, which is also the context in which the first – the movement of the powerful – is to be tracked: More than any other in recent times, the past year has framed and sharpened an absence in India’s liberal democratic imagination.