INDIA PERSPECTIVE

New Delhi covers Islamabad with the sharp attention of a neighbor to Pakistan that has its own scores to settle with every actor at the table. The Times of India publishes two complementary angles: the harrowing accounts of American soldiers wounded in an Iranian drone strike on a Kuwait base, and Iran's symbolic gesture of bringing Minab school strike victims aboard the flight to Islamabad. Indian coverage performs a decentering: where most outlets analyze geopolitics, New Delhi tells the story of bodies — wounded Americans, dead Iranian schoolchildren. It's a framing that reflects India's position: officially non-aligned, but deeply affected by the war through oil and LPG price spikes hitting its 1.4 billion people.