Wow.. Thats a strange but a very interesting list.. And quite well surveyed. :)
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Kalam tops trusted Indians list > > IANS > Published on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 17:31, Updated on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at > 18:14 in India section > > New Delhi: Former president A P J Abdul Kalam and industrialist Ratan Tata > top the list of 100 most trusted Indians while artist M F Husain is at 91 > and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is at the very bottom, a survey > conducted for Reader's Digest has revealed. > > Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is ranked seventh, one place below chess > grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand, Sachin Tendulkar is at number eight and > Nobel laureate Amartya Sen at 10th place along with Wipro chairman Azim > Premji and Indian Space Research Organisation M Madhavan Nair. > > Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is ranked 29th in the survey > published in the March edition ofReader's Digest that hit the stands > Tuesday. > > *Others in the top 10 list of India's most trusted Indians are former > police officer Kiran Bedi (3rd), Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy (4th), > music composer A.R. Rahman (5th) and cartoonist R.K. Laxman (9th).* > > Among India's most trusted professions, teachers are at the top, followed > rather surprisingly by firefighters and farmers follow at number three. > > Scientists and members of the armed forces share fourth position, with > doctors at sixth, pilots at seventh, pilots at seventh, surgeons at eighth, > nurses at ninth and engineers at 10th. > > At the bottom end of the scale of 40 most trusted professions are religious > leaders (35), lawyers (36), police officers (37), government officials (38), > realtors (39) and politicians (40). > > "The survey was conducted online by market research firm Digital Edge that > sent out 5,000 invitations, with 761 people responding by the cutoff date," > Digest editor Mohan Sivanandan told IANS on the phone from Mumbai. > > "The survey covered 30 cities, with two-thirds of the respondents being > under 35, possessing a bachelor's degree and three-fourth's male," he added. > > Given this, Sivanandan has added a caveat in his editorial in the Digest. > > "Although we cannot claim this survey to be absolutely scientific, you'll > agree with me that the overall results mirror public perceptions fairly > accurately. Equally interesting are the views and explanations from experts. > On a personal note, I don't have cause to rejoice, because journalists are > ranked 30th among 40 professions, just below plumbers," the editorial says. > > Thus, the survey has more than its share of surprises, with cricket captain > Mahendra Singh Dhoni ranked at 42nd, way below shooter Abhinav Bindra > (25th), while tennis star Sania Mirza is at 81st. > > The respondents gave a massive thumbs down to politicians and sports > administrators. > > Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani is at 94, Railway Minister Mamata > Banerjee at 96, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar at 97, Communist Party of > India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat at 98 and former railway > minister Lalu Prasad at 99. > > Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi is just one notch above > Advani. > > Bollywood and the small screen have their share of places with actors > Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan at 14 and 18 respectively, with TV comic > Jaspal Bhatti at 43, scriptwriter Javed Akhtar at 46, Shah Rukh Khan at 53, > Sushmita Sen at 64, Rajnikanth at 67, Kamal Haasan at 71, director Anurag > Kashyap at 78, Malayalam actor Mohanlal at 80, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at 82 > and TV serial producer Ekta Kapoor at 95. > > Among the other surprises in the list, President Pratibha Patil is ranked > way below at 67, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia > at 41, Home Minister P. Chidambaram at 50, novelist Khushwant Singh at 51 > and environmentalist R.K. Pachauri at 61 along with CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief > Rajdeep Sardesai. > > Congress president Sonia Gandhi is at 72, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee > at 73, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor at 84, Leader > of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley at 86, Gujarat Chief Minister > Narendra Modi at 87 and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at > 89. > >
