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post-truth

  • Delusional democracy? From Mumbai 26/11 to Pahalgam, India has entered the post-truth era

    Delusional democracy? From Mumbai 26/11 to Pahalgam, India has entered the post-truth era

    Nissim Mannathukkaren
    · Jun 19, 2025 · 09:00 am
  • UP polls could change the future of India’s post-truth era (and its leading light Narendra Modi)

    UP polls could change the future of India’s post-truth era (and its leading light Narendra Modi)

    Samar Halarnkar
    · Feb 26, 2017 · 09:00 am
  • Readers comments: Truth may be plural but alt facts in the US context are plain false

    Readers comments: Truth may be plural but alt facts in the US context are plain false

    Scroll
    · Feb 12, 2017 · 10:30 pm
  • Question for the Alt-Fact world: Why can’t truth be plural?

    Question for the Alt-Fact world: Why can’t truth be plural?

    Devdutt Pattanaik
    · Feb 10, 2017 · 08:00 am
  • The world’s words of the year show us how dark and surreal 2016 has been

    The world’s words of the year show us how dark and surreal 2016 has been

    Philip Seargeant, The Conversation
    · Dec 24, 2016 · 11:30 pm
  • 2016: The year that truth died

    2016: The year that truth died

    Girish Shahane
    · Dec 21, 2016 · 08:00 am
  • Watch: Trevor Noah explains how to deal with the lies of politicians in the post-truth world

    Watch: Trevor Noah explains how to deal with the lies of politicians in the post-truth world

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 02, 2016 · 06:00 pm
  • 'Post-truth' declared Oxford Dictionaries's word of the year

    'Post-truth' declared Oxford Dictionaries's word of the year

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 16, 2016 · 08:34 pm