Malala was not impressed by Time magazine ranking

December 23, 2018 15:02

When Malala Yousafzai came to know that she was on the cover of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list in 2013, it hardly impressed her as she told her father, "I do not believe in such categorisation of human beings".

Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai talks about this interesting fact in his new book "Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey and the Fight for Equality".

Malala was on the cover and inside she was ranked number 15. Then US President Barack Obama was 51st.

A driver named Shahid Hussain in Britain showed a copy of the magazine on his phone to Ziauddin who in turn showed it to his daughter.

While Malala was in the hospital, first full-time, then visiting for ongoing treatment, (wife Toor) Pekai and I needed somebody to drive us to and from the facility. One day, our driver, Shahid Hussain, who had become our friend, arrived with news of TIME magazine's 2013 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Ziauddin writes.

Please I request you show this report to her. She will be so happy, Hussain told Ziauddin. He gave his mobile phone to show her.

Ziauddin took the phone and showed it to Malala.

I was so proud of what was on the screen. She took the phone from me and studied it. And then she put it down. Well,' she said, I do not believe in such categorisation of human beings', he writes in the book published by WH Allen.

-- PTI

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