Around mid-July, a familiar thing happened on social media: an old clip from the Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri resurfaced and started making its way through feeds, group chats, and story reposts. It was one of those videos you feel you have seen before, maybe from a different year, maybe from a different angle, but it carries the same raw energy each time—massive chariots, thick crowds, the push and pull of devotees straining against thick ropes, the drumbeat of a festival that has moved through the same streets for centuries. The clip felt like a memory, almost timeless, but it…

White Coat, Wise Words? Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Medical Misinformation There is a picture I keep in my mind from the early days of the pandemic: a nurse, exhausted after a twelve-hour shift in an overwhelmed ICU, sitting in her car with the windows rolled up, crying. She had just spent another day watching people die from a virus that she believed was largely preventable. But the hardest part wasn’t the long hours or the crushing equipment or the ever-shifting protocols. The hardest part was the moment she walked into her patient’s room, and that patient looked at…