During the run up to the US presidential elections, one of the infamous opinions of the then Republican candidate and now the 45th President of the United States of America Donald Trump was on climate change. He had opined that climate change caused due to global warming was not man-made but a Chinese hoax, to bring down US manufacturing sector.This when time and again it has been proven by world bodies and scientific communities that global warming is lavishly contributing to climate change. This is also being experienced world over by people in the form of extreme temperatures, a rise in sea level, submergence of coastal land etc. With this he was trying to influence the opinion of not just the Americans but the entire world with misinformation and twisted facts. This practice in political culture where leaders, media houses and people in influential positions present distorted or alternate facts, fake news material and try to emotionally disconnect the general public from the mainstream issues and the truth, thereby polarizing the society is termed as the "Post-truth".
India being the world's largest democracy and a strict observer of "Non-alignment" preached by our very first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, has a great role to play in this Post-Truth Era. India is aiming to become a Super Power. And to get that status we would have to have the courage to speak and uphold the truth.
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