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Please Don't Take This the Wrong Way
Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain has objected to an inaccurate map of India at a Glasgow restaurant, saying the depiction that omitted the Northeast left her “hurt. The Indian boxing contingent had visited Mister Singh's India – The Home of Curry to celebrate its historic Commonwealth Games performance when Lovlina noticed that the map printed on the restaurant's napkins, and the one displayed outside the premises, did not include the Northeast.”
Please don't take this the wrong way. I felt a little hurt by this. In the map of India, our North East is missing.
Yes, even outside, the map that's displayed has cut off the North East. As someone from the North East, that really hurts us. That's all I wanted to say.
Please keep this in mind next time. Thank you so much, she said. Boxing Federation of India president Ajay Singh backed her remarks, noting the map also failed to correctly depict Jammu and Kashmir, and urged the restaurant management to withdraw the existing design and replace it with an accurate one.
The restaurant had not released an official statement at the time of writing. The controversy came shortly after India's most successful boxing campaign in Commonwealth Games history, securing a record seven gold medals. The women's squad dominated, with Preeti Pawar, Jaismine Lamboria, Sakshi Chaudhary, Arundhati Choudhary and Priya Ghanghas winning gold in their respective weight divisions.
Sachin Siwach and Ankush Panghal added two more titles in the men's competition. Lovlina narrowly missed gold, settling for silver in the women's 70kg final after a hard-fought 4-1 defeat to Australia's Emma-Sue Greentree. What was meant to be a celebration instead turned into a discussion over the map's depiction, with contingent members calling for it to be corrected.
Source: Mint
