The fact is we've been living in a 'post-truth' world for a while now. It may even be more precise to say that different sections of society, the world over, have lived at different levels of 'fact' and 'truth' since time immemorial. But just because human beings are capable of being rational doesn't mean they like being rational. Faced with the most monumental system of 'non-truths' and 'alternative facts' the world had seen, Gandhi deployed the insistence of truth. Equally, it's important not to lose sight of the fact that across the history of the last hundred-odd years truth and alternative truth, facts and anti-facts, have always been seesawing in conflict.

Source: The Telegraph February 20, 2017 16:35 UTC