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1 month ago | scroll.in | Ayush Tiwari |Nolina Minj |Rokibuz Zaman |Tabassum Barnagarwala

For four days, Pratham Mahato had been glued to his mobile phone, watching news updates on the India-Pakistan conflict while making and serving tea at his makeshift shop in Ranchi, Jharkhand. On May 7, the day India had launched strikes on alleged terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Mahato was exultant. “The government has done the right thing,” he told Scroll.

1 month ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta |Rokibuz Zaman

“Yaachna nahi, ab rann hoga,” the Bharatiya Janata Party posted on its official X profile on May 9 alongside a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi dressed in an air force jumpsuit. “It is time for war, not appeals.”The BJP invoked lines from a famous Hindi poem by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, as India and Pakistan appeared to be headed for a full-scale war.

1 month ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Anant Gupta |Rokibuz Zaman |Nolina Minj

On Wednesday morning, several hours after India launched Operation Sindoor against targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Mudra Singhe made her way through an unseasonal rain shower to a civil defence drill in South Mumbai. A volunteer with the National Cadet Corps, the 19-year-old said the session taught her “how to carry out a rescue from a building, either by rappelling or by lying flat and proceeding”.