P.V. Laxmiprasad
Truth is the property of being in accordance with fact or reality. In everyday language, it is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality. True statements are usually held to be the opposite of false statements.
In fact, truth makes a silent pause taking twists and turns in the end. It is generally held that truth burns like fire. Man’s real nature will come out in situations when it is a testing time. Truth can never be seen in physical form. It always makes an abstract existence in the world. It is like a bomb exploded in the ultimate analysis.
A truth walks naked in the public but people dress it up smartly with a pack of lies. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. An exposure of scams and scandals will reveal realities behind the veil of secret operations. Even men who are liars can be easily believed even when he or she speaks the truth. Such is the huge impact that truth leaves behind.
People hate each other in the world. No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. This is the tempo of life that man has to live in. There are fact-finding commissions and committees when there are allegations of bribery, corruption, and misuse of public money. Truth will surface when a group of people who vehemently oppose the group that supports the bribery. Truth has the potential to separate fact from lies. It becomes a wildfire in the media when truth is hidden about something that is really pressing in the society.
Truth has no outward beauty but an inward beauty to cut the faces across and surface realities. Its tendency is to act slowly. It eventually makes its strong presence over the sensitive issues. It imparts justice in the end though it takes a long time to establish its appearance. A court decides the cases based on the facts but not on the strength of false arguments. In a similar way, a wrong answer by a student in the examination would invite fail marks. Truth declares that the answer is wrong.
Even in public life where people are involved in different walks of life resort to unfair practices. Truth waits in and makes a sudden jolt. It reveals shocking facts to attack the wrongdoers.
True statements are usually held to be the opposite of false statements. The concept of truth is discussed and debated in various contexts, including philosophy, art, theology, law, and science. Most human activities depend upon the concept, where its nature as a concept is assumed rather than being a subject of discussion, including journalism and everyday life.
A journalist is a hard-core fact seeker in his investigative art. All journalism moves around truth establishment. Without truth, the art of journalism will lose its professionalism.
Some philosophers view the concept of truth as basic, and unable to be explained in any terms that are more easily understood than the concept of truth itself. Most commonly, truth is viewed as the correspondence of language or thought to a mind-independent world. This is called the correspondence theory of truth.
The theoretical framework of truth is usually discussed in literature. In practical life, truth always shines underneath lies. It glows and radiates when the occasion demands it. The truth is still the truth even if no one believes it. A lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it. Truth has a strong presence in its shades and shadows of life. Truth digs out the buried lies.
Comments are closed.