India's Cartographic Conundrum: A Sovereignty Showdown at the UN The United Nations General Assembly has long been a platform for nations to assert their interests on the global stage.
Recently, however, one issue has sparked nationalistic fervor in India: the use of map projections that don't accurately reflect its territorial claims.
India's decision to back a UN resolution promoting equal area world maps while criticizing the depiction of Jammu and Kashmir is puzzling.