Forbes India: Gukesh and Vaishali are on the 2022-23 Showstoppers list
Forbes India announced their first-ever Showstoppers list with 50 personalities from entertainment and sports, including Gukesh D. and Vaishali Rameshbabu.
Forbes India unveils the first-ever Showstoppers edition, with a list featuring 50 personalities from entertainment and sports whose achievements have made them outperformers in their respective fields in 2022. The list of 50—20 from films, 15 from OTT and 15 from sport—is curated by a jury of experts. The sports jury had Ayon Sengupta, editor, Sportstar; Sharda Ugra, senior sports writer and columnist, and Susan Ninan, sports writer.
While the Showstoppers list features high-profile superstars, like Alia Bhatt, AR Rahman, and Deepika Padukone, it also includes talented individuals who might be lesser talked-about, but have proven their mettle in their respective fields in 2022, like Gukesh D. and Vaishali Rameshbabu.
Gukesh is India’s youngest grandmaster and the youngest player to have taken down Magnus Carlsen since he became a world champion. Gukesh was also in red-hot form in the Chess Olympiad, registering eight wins in a row and helping India B win the bronze. He also won an individual gold in the tournament.
Vaishali was recently crowned the first-ever women’s blitz champion at the Tata Steel Chess in Kolkata—a massive feat for women’s chess in India. She became a grandmaster at the age of 17 and in 2021 became an International Master. Additionally, she was also part of the gold medal-winning Indian team at the Online Olympiad 2020, which included players like Viswanathan Anand, Koneru Humpy and her brother Praggnanandhaa. She is also one of the top 50 women in the world rankings.
