Ghazala Wahab

There are two ways of achieving one’s objective. The ‘First Way’ is difficult and runs the risk of only partial success, if not complete failure. One has to set an objective, draw up a strategy as well as a roadmap, fix accountability and timelines, review progress and prepare alternatives if the original strategy doesn’t work. Most importantly, one needs foresight and flexibility to review the objective itself if the circumstances have changed.

The ‘Other Way’ is to claim that the objective has been achieved. All this requires is a narrative, through the media and public posturing that the supreme leader has achieved the objective set out before the nation. The only risk here is not actually achieving the objective. But that’s in any case does not matter. Because the objective now is not to achieve the objective, but only to convey to the people that the objective has been achieved.

India seems to be living this secondary reality right now. The only facts that matter today are the one’s which the government claims and citizens accept. Everything else is propaganda.

One of the post-truth facts is that India t