Actually, Anand is in top 3 strongest players in the world. Aronian might be better than him but Anand is certainly better than Gelfand, Caruana, Grischuk, Naka

Actually, Anand is in top 3 strongest players in the world. Aronian might be better than him but Anand is certainly better than Gelfand, Caruana, Grischuk, Nakamura, & Kramnik. All these players have higher ratings. The author is too hung up on the rating being an absolute measure of ability, but Elo has its own set of problems (e.g. rating inflation). Anand has very little incentive to play open tournaments and compete for rating points when he can instead spend all his effort defending his title for a big payout.