Siddharth Varadarajan is an award-winning Indian journalist and a founding editor of the Indian digital news portal The Wire. He was editor of the English language national daily The Hindu from 2011 to 2013. He was the first editor to have been not drawn from the family of primary shareholders in its 150-year history. He joined The Hindu in 2004, as Strategic Affairs editor, before becoming the Chief of National Bureau.
In 2007, Varadarajan was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.[15] In 2009, he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University. He has also served as a senior fellow at the Center for Public Affairs and Critical Theory at Shiv Nadar University in Delhi
Varadarajan obtained his BA degree at London School of Economics and pursued his graduate studies at Columbia University.