A look at how India's boundaries have been misrepresented by foreign media time and again

Mumbai: A controversy recently erupted after China’s state-owned news channel CCTV showed India’s map without Jammu & Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh while reporting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China. The map was shown during a bulletin when Modi was in Xi’an city where he held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in his hometown.

It was Facebook founder’s birthday on Thursday, but instead of receiving greetings and wishes, he was at the receiving end of the wrath of thousands of Indians. Reason? He posted an info-graphic on Facebook, which shows a map of India with Kashmir missing from it. The info-graphic was posted on May 13, and later deleted.  

In April 2015, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry ordered middle-eastern English news channel Al Jazeera to be taken off for five days for repeatedly showing map of India, where Lakshdweep and Andaman Islands were missing and parts of Kashmir were shown in Pakistan.

In March 2015, RSS mouthpiece Organiser,  in a map showed parts of Kashmir in Pakistan, which later created an uproar in the Maharashtra Legislative Council.

In February 2015, a map of India was published in a brochure of Bangaldesh Tourism, showing a large area of Kashmir as a part of Pakistan. The brochure was being distributed at the International Book Fair. The BJP’s Yuva Morcha wing after the mistake came out and staged a protest outside the Bangladesh stall. Later the Bangladesh Tourism Minister ordered the withdrawal of the brochures and ordered an inquiry in the matter.

In November 2014, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Queensland University of Technology, an Indian map shown there had Kashmir missing in it. A tweet from Ministry of External Ministry raised the issue and after an appropriate resolution, received an apology on the misrepresentation.