Srinagar, May 3 -- In a narrow lane of Srinagar, a boy barely ten years old is asked about the Pahalgam attack by a man holding a camera. The boy hesitates. He says something, unsure of its meaning. The man nods and walks away, satisfied. Later, the clip goes viral.

This is the new front line: not battlefields or borders, but busy markets and quiet corners, where content creators roam with questions laced in accusation. They are not here to understand. They are here to extract outrage.

A woman once asked to leave Kashmir for stoking tensions returns after the attack. She films again-an out-of-context monologue, painting suspicion with a calm voice. There's no effort to listen. The lens is not curious. It's conclusive.

In Lal Chowk, thr...