A Morning of Hope at Gorakhnath: The Human Face of Governance The pale winter dawn was just beginning to kiss the ancient spires of Gorakhnath Temple when the gates opened and a river of human hope began to flow inward. For the second consecutive morning, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had taken his seat for Janata Darshan, the open public audience that has become a cherished institution in this sacred precinct. There is something deeply intimate about these gatherings—the way ordinary citizens, many of whom have traveled from distant villages, clutch their papers and documents like precious cargo, their…

Picture a university classroom today: a lecturer clicks play on a short video to illustrate a complicated concept in political science, and students watch, take notes, and discuss. This scene has become remarkably common—nearly two-thirds of higher education instructors in the social sciences now use instructional videos as part of their teaching. But with the explosion of AI-generated content, the same question keeps surfacing in faculty meetings and student study groups alike: can we actually trust what we’re watching? The internet is full of slickly produced videos that look authoritative but may be shallow, misleading, or simply wrong. That anxiety…