We must free public discourse from all forms of violence: Full text of President Mukherjee’s farewell address

We must free public discourse from all forms of violence: Full text of President Mukherjee’s farewell address

President Pranab Mukherjee advocated freeing public discourse from violence — “physical as well as verbal” — and asserted that the country derived its strength from tolerance. Stressing the need for “pluralism and tolerance” in his last televised address to the nation as the president, he said the capacity for compassion and empathy was the “true […]