A Trilogy for the Age of Disillusion: Critical Reading of Dr. Jernail Singh Anand’s Post Truth Trilogy

Abstract

This combined literary review reads Dr. Jernail S. Anand’s Post Truth Trilogy—Conversations with the Infinite, Beyond the Boundaries of Thought, and At The Threshold of Wisdom—as a connected philosophical and literary inquiry into truth, uncertainty, thought and wisdom. Rather than treating the three books as isolated works, the review considers their movement from questioning inherited certainties, through the destabilisation of thought, towards an ethics of attentive and responsible living. Book I opens a conversation with the Infinite and questions borrowed truths; Book II places thought itself under scrutiny in a world crowded by competing claims to truth; and Book III moves towards wisdom understood not as a fixed system but as a way of living and acting. The review also examines Anand’s distinctive use of dialogue, paradox, fractured language, silence, recurring images and his concepts of Bio-Text and Post Truthism. The trilogy is situated in conversation with Indian philosophical traditions as well as thinkers such as Tagore, Krishnamurti, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Hartmut Rosa, Edward Said and Martha Nussbaum. Its significance lies in its attempt to bring spiritual inquiry, ethical reflection and contemporary anxieties about knowledge into a single literary framework. The review argues that the three books are best understood as three movements of one sustained inquiry: conversation, ordeal and threshold.