Abstract
The recurrence of aberrations in the form of illiberalism in liberal democracies is not a ‘by-chance phenomenon’, but exists due to the presence of intrinsic structural linkages that herald a return of protracted anti-people rhetoric and practices time. The satyagraha discourse attempts to offer an alternative paradigm in which democracy itself contains the notion of satyagraha for the arrival of swaraj. A thorough musing over ‘truth as a vantage point’, ‘life as satyagraha’, ‘moral-ethical parameters of truth’, ‘civilisational discourse’, ‘nature of education’, ‘location of truth in global philosophical traditions’, ‘relation between religion and politics’, ‘complexity of information age’ and ‘life as satyagraha’ becomes a sine qua non for the effective unravelling of substantive nuances of satyagraha for global transformation.
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