The Supreme Court of India, while hearing religious freedom cases including Sabarimala, remarked it respects expert opinions but rejects “WhatsApp University” sources. The bench discussed limits of judicial assessment of religious practices and gender-based entry restrictions at temples
By Pramod K Nayar In the fact-free, post-truth world, the entrenchment of subjective truth as the only one that counts has become prominent. Relativism of the type ‘you can’t know my pain’, the insistence that only the personal is political — in an inversion of the feminist slogan — lays the foundation for discussing what counts […]
