A Mumbai election in the time of post-truth politics - News Summed Up

A Mumbai election in the time of post-truth politics


And, last week, President Donald Trump’s administration handed us a delightful nuance – alternative facts. Cut through the chatter: Post-truth and alternative facts are nothing but pretty words to dress up deception and lies. The alternative fact is that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi has made Mumbai his karo-ya-maro bhoomi, like the anti-British Do-or-Die agitation of 1942 launched at August Kranti Maidan. Away from this post-truth world, the truth is Mumbai has become an unbearably dense, traffic-congested, filthy, unliveable, unequal and rude city. Also read: Women in BMC election: Half the House is a good thing


Source: Hindustan Times January 25, 2017 18:46 UTC



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