Some of the most grounded, effective community leaders I've known never set foot in a university, and requiring a degree feels like it would shut out exactly the kind of lived, real-world wisdom that actually understands what ordinary people are going through.
India's own 1968 Supreme Court ruling and subsequent legal scholarship note that a formal educational requirement for elected office would conflict with the universal adult suffrage principle the Constitution is built on, treating candidacy as a privilege tied to formal schooling rather than a right tied to citizenship.
Is caste-based reservation system still necessary in modern India?
Should wealthy nations have an obligation to accept more climate refugees?
