‘We don’t want war’, say some Indians amid public cheering over strikes

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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”. Kavita Mulge, another member of the young wing of the Indian armed forces, said she found it difficult to “follow and understand everything under heavy rains”. But she appreciated the lessons. “Such drills...