India, May 23 -- As India looks back on Operation Sindoor, much of the attention is on the physical damages caused by the kinetic strikes conducted by India and Pakistan. Indian media headlines inform that nearly 20% of Pakistan Air Force infrastructure has been destroyed by precision strikes and more than 100 terrorists killed. Daily press briefings focused on the employment of drones, missile strikes, and the damage caused to military infrastructure and civilian population.

While this was undoubtedly the worst bout of fighting between India and Pakistan since the Kargil War of 1999, it was also one in which a fierce parallel battle was playing out in the information space. This was the battle of perceptions conducted across television ...