A Post-Truth: Existence of New Phenomena in Selected Short Stories of Munshi Premchand Sharma Krati1, Pareek Upma2,* 1Associate Professor, Department of English, Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 2Director, Let's Speak English (LSE), Spoken English Institute, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India *Corresponding author email id: upmapareek12@gmail.com
Online Published on 21 October, 2022. Abstract Munshi Premchand (1880–1936) popularly known as Upanyas Samrat of Indian Literature was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as well-known Hindi writer of early 20th century. His writings describe in realistic detail the political and social struggles in India of the early 20th century which has its relevance even today. His short stories mirrors the modern era and shows his farsightedness and well fitted to the contemporary world. The present paper will analyse the phenomena of post-truth and its relevance in the selected short stories of Munshi Premchand; Kafan, Nasha and Mandir Masjid. Post-truth is a political and a philosophical idea percolating down to the democratic fabric of our society. The word “Post-Truth” was declared as an international word of the year in 2016.The Oxford Dictionaries define “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Posttruth implies an assumed understanding of truth which is evident in selected stories of Munshi Premchand. Top Keywords Post-truth, Opinion out of belief, Short story, Socio-culture perspective. Top |