WORD OF THE YEAR 2016 : " POST TRUTH "

" Post- Truth "

              

                Oxford Dictionary has declared  " post-truth "  as its 2016 international word of the year .  Reflecting what it called a  " highly - charged "  political 12 months.

∆ The meaning of  " post - truth " :

      •  According to Oxford Dictionary , " Post truth : Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief . 

                  

                                 

              

                  Post Truth is a philosophical and political concept that refers" the disappearance of shared objective standerd for truth " and the "circuitous slippage , between fact or at-facts , knowledge , opinion , belief and truth " . Post truth discourage is often contrasted with the forms taken by scientific methods and inquiry . The first time the term Post truth was used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian - American playwright  Steve Tesich in the nation magazine .

 ∆  Post truth Politics :-

        

              Post truth Politics has been applied on political buzzword to a wide range of political cultures ; one artical in The Economist identified post truth Politics in , the United States , Russia , Turkey , India and the United kingdom . 

• The United State :

             

                    In 2016, the "post -truth" label was especially widely used to describe the presidential compaign of Donald Trump , including by professor Daniel w. Drezner in the  Washington Post , Jonathan Freedland in The Gaurdian , James kirchick in the Los Angeles Times , and several professor of government and history at Harvard . In 2017 , The new York Times , The Washington Post , and others , have pointed out lies or falsehood in Trump's statements after the election . Former president Barack Obama stated that the new media ecosystem " mean everything is true and nothing is true " . Donald Trump is the leading exponent of " post- truth " politics a reliance on assertion that " feel-  true" but  have no basis in fact .

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• India : 

             Amulya  Gopalkrishnan , columnist for the Times of India , identified similarities between the Trump and Brexit campaigns on the one hand , hot button issue in India such as the Ishrat Jahan case and the ongoing case against Teesta setalvad on the other , where accusation of forged evidence and historical revisionism have resulted in an "ideological impasses " . 

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