Arsha drew cars, Fatema the globe: Artwork by kids killed in Iran school bombing come to Delhi | Delhi News
3 min readNew DelhiApr 19, 2026 01:47 AM IST “I love my mother a lot. I miss her when I go to school. My father drops me to school” — these sentences in Persian feature in a drawing of a heart connected by two flowers, roughly shaded in red with a yellow centre. Another drawing, this one by six-year-old Arsha Mirani, shows two cars colored in blue, red, orange and pink. A sun shines above, with three hearts on the right. It, too, has a small message in Persian: ‘the sun is yellow… Arsha has a car and mother is cooking food’. The two drawings are among 28 photos on display at the Iran Embassy in Delhi, drawn by young children who were killed when a missile destroyed their school in Southern Iran’s Minab on February 28 — the day the Iran-US-Israel war broke out. The artworks were recovered from school bags, buried beneath the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school, by Red Crescent rescue teams. It was then scanned and emailed to the Iranian Embassy. …







