Meera Nanda

Meera Nanda started out as a microbiologist (Ph.D, IIT-Delhi) and later turned to history and philosophy of science (Ph.D., Science Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA). She has taught history of science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research first at Mohali (2009-2017) and later at IISER-Pune (2019-2020). Her forthcoming book is titled Asatyameva Jayate in Hindu Nationalist India. This essay is abstracted from the book in progress.

Big Lies, Deep Lies in Post-Truth India

By Meera Nanda / Issue 29, Education, Magazine / 29 minutes of reading

Post-truth is pre-fascist. — Timothy Snyder [1] It is twilight time for democracy. In the world’s oldest and the most populous liberal democracies, the United States and India respectively, a populist, majoritarian vigilantism is slowly but steadily snuffing out the promise of multi-religious, multi-ethnic societies enjoying constitutional protections of civil liberties and equality before