Many observers, globally, suspect that being economical with the truth no longer attracts the reproach it once did. We are, after all, in the era of post-truth, a term that was crowned “word of the year" by Oxford Dictionaries in 2016. Those who celebrate it like to give the concept a post-modernist spin, arguing that truth is contextual rather than the binary opposite of falsehood. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement." In The Story Of My Experiments With Truth, Mahatma Gandhi wrote of his conviction that “morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality".

Source: Mint September 29, 2019 17:26 UTC