An iconic selfie taken by Mahindra Group’s Chairman Anand Mahindra is going viral. It features Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani, 3rdiTech co-founder Vrinda Kapoor and astronaut Sunita Williams, who bumped into him while he was in the US to attend the attend the state dinner organised for PM Narendra Modi
Anand Mahindra shared this iconic selfie on his Twitter account and wrote, “I suppose this was what they would call a ‘Washington moment.’ After the tech handshake meeting yesterday, Mukesh Ambani, Vrinda Kapoor & I were continuing a conversation with the Secretary of Commerce & missed the group shuttle bus to the next lunch engagement. We were trying to call an Uber when we ran into NASA astronaut Sunita Williams for a selfie & we also asked if we could hitch a ride on her space shuttle instead of an Uber.”
Anand Mahndra’s selfie post has garnered more than 65,000 likes. Here is a look at other iconic selfies of all time
The first known space selfie was taken by Buzz Aldrin during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966. Another notable space selfie was taken by Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide during the six-hour, 28-minute spacewalk in 2012
Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh took a selfie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Karan Johar, Rohit Shetty, Ranbir Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar, Ayushmann Khurrana, Sidharth Malhotra, Ekta Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal and Varun Dhawan. The interaction was described as a "courtesy meeting", where they discussed the role of the Bollywood industry in nation building
In 2014, Ellen DeGeneres, who was hosting the Oscar ceremony took a historic selfie featuring celebrities Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep and more. It was the most retweeted entertainment tweet of 2014. It was also nominated for Shorty Special Award for Newsworthy Photo of the Year
French leader Emanuel Macron took a selfie with then-UK Prime Minister Theresa May and other guests at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2018
In 2019, Aniston made her Instagram debut by posting her selfie with Friends co-stars. That selfie broke the internet as the post garnered over 7 million likes and more than 300 comments. Her friends including Gwyneth Paltrow and Reese Witherspoon commented on the iconic selfie
An iconic mirror selfie from 2016 Met Gala went viral, where Hailey Bieber, Stella Maxwell, Lily-Rose Depp, Lily Aldridge, and Doutzen Kroes were seen posing in front of the mirror while being dressed up for the event. Another selfie from the 2017 Met featuring Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, A$AP Rocky, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Chambers, Ashton Sanders, Luka Sabbat, Paris Jackson, Sean Combs, Lily Aldridge, Slick Woods, and more also went viral