The wire - Siddharth Varadarajan and Nandini Sundar
In 2006, Congress leader and tribal leader Mahendra Karma started a Salwa Judum movement, in which local people got training and support from the state government to fight against the Naxals.
In 2007, Nandini Sundar filed a PIL in the Supreme Court to ban Salwa Judum, which gave the Maoists a tough fight.
Colin Gonsalves was a lawyer for Nandini Sundar.
Nandini Sundar is a professor at Delhi University and the wife of Siddharth Varadarajan, the founder of the anti-Hindu Marxist propaganda website, The Wire, which the Government of India banned on May 8, 2025.
In 2011, the Supreme Court banned Salwa Judum, which was fighting against Maoists. Just two years later, in 2013, Maoists killed the founder of Salwa Judum and Tribal Congress leader Mahendra Karma. He was stabbed 78 times by Maoists, yes, 78 times!
In 2016, Nandini Sundar visited Bastar with the communist leader Sanjay Parate, and she used the fake name Richa Kesav to hide her identity.
Villagers complained that Nandini had threatened them to support Naxals and incite them against the government.
There were murder charges against Nandini Sundar and her comrades, but the Supreme Court again came to rescue her! The statement of the wife of the murdered person changed, and Nandini got a clean chit in this case!
Nandini is powerful and Industrialists fund these people.
Nandini Sundar signed mercy petition for Afzal Guru, who was convicted for the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001.
Nandini Sundar’s parents were IAS officers of the 1963 batch, Pushpa Sundar and Sanjivi Sundar. They took early retirement after serving a few years.
Puspa Sundar joined the Ford Foundation as a Programme Officer and gave birth to NFI with support from the Ford Foundation and Tata. NFI supports an anti-Hindu group of people.
Ratan Tata was a trustee of the Ford Foundation between 1994 and 2006. Ratan Tata has also written a foreword for the book of Pushpa Sundar!
Narayan Murthy was another Ford Foundation trustee between 2008 and 2014. Interestingly, Nandini Sundar received Infosys’s prize in 2010!
In 1996, Pushpa Sundar started an NGO, Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy. Interestingly, it is also funded by the Tata and Ford Foundations.
IAS Sanjivi Sundar, father of Nandini Sundar and Husband of Puspa Sundar, worked for Tata’s nonprofit institute, TERI.
When Siddharth Varadarajan, son-in-law of Pushpa Sundar and Husband of Nandini Sundar, started The Wire,
- Ratan Tata gave 1.64 crores
- Narayan Murthy gave one crore
- Nandan Nilekani, another Infosys founder, who headed IPSMF, gave 12.2 crores
More detailed funding can be seen here
Siddharth Varadarajan is the founder of The Wire and the son of IAS officer Muthusamy Varadarajan. Notably, Muthusamy Varadarajan served as a minister at the Indian High Commission in London from 1979 to 1983.
Muthusamy Varadarajan was a son of Ombalapadi Appasamy Muthusamy.
In 1959, the father of Siddharth Varadarajan gave the order to fire on a mob which has set fire to his vehicle. It led to two deaths and many injuries, but because of the backing of his seniors, there was no action against him.He was a high-ranking police officer under the British.
Many IAS officers and other influential people used to send pregnant ladies to the USA. According to jus soli, a newborn baby in a USA hospital gets USA citizenship. Siddharth has US citizenship from this route!
Siddharth’s elder brother Tunku Varadarajan, aka Patanjali Varadarajan, has British citizenship!