India, May 2 -- Siddharth Varadarajan, the editor-in-chief of The Wire, recently shared an article from the online news outlet on his Twitter:
The article argues that vociferous demands across certain sections of society-that there be minimum constitutionally mandated educational qualifications for a citizen to vote-are misguided and obtuse. It contends that those who make such arguments speak from a position of privilege and posits that a conglomerate of policy-making elites is less likely to cure a democracy of its ills and more likely to accentuate them.
Although it is arguable whether tweeting an article is necessarily endorsing it, anyone who knows anything of Varadarajan's body of work would like to believe that he agrees with the c...