In Dombivli’s quiet neighborhoods, where grief has not yet faded from the air, news of Operation Sindoor arrived not as closure, but as a reminder of what was lost.

On April 22, a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, claimed the lives of three local men—Sanjay Laxman Lele, 50; Atul Shrikant Mone, 43; and Hemant Suhas Joshi, 45—who were related.