Can Language Tell the Truth?

In this episode of Interlinked, hosts Chanakya and Aaliyah sit down with Professor Ish Maini, an interdisciplinary researcher, legal consultant, and storyteller to explore one of the most quietly radical tensions in human experience: the gap between what language promises and what it can never fully deliver.We examine how the precision of law and the fluidity of storytelling pull in opposite directions, and what falls through the cracks between them. Professor Maini brings his view as both a lawyer and a writer to questions about silence, noise, and the ‘unspoken’ asking whether hesitation, rhythm, and the spaces between words carry more truth than the sentences themselves. From how law constructs consent rather than capturing it, to how digital archives can be erased overnight as a new form of silencing, this episode challenges the assumption that cleaner language means clearer meaning.Join us for a conversation that sits at the intersection of linguistic theory, legal philosophy, and the politics of storytelling and asks why the most important things we say are often the ones standard grammar simply cannot handle.