India, June 14 -- The heat is on, and people are on a short fuse as well. The cooler climes of hill states like Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand do somehow manage to enable largely temperate public behaviour. But even some pahadis have been landing in pressure-cooker situations these days, as evidenced by seemingly authentic video reels. It is another matter that these tense exchanges occur, whenever the aforementioned short-fused worthies from the big cities decide to take an uphill break.

Exasperatingly enough, a highly enhanced number of violent reels are being floated, indeed fanned by social media these days. Mischievous reel uploaders are hell-bent upon disturbing the peace of the land, tenuous though it always is. The fastest-fing...