“The external boundaries of India as depicted are neither accurate nor authentic.” - These are the words that for decades Indian customs officials have stamped on every foreign atlas or map that has shown India’s borders differently from the official Indian claim. It is this set of words in a rubber stamp applied to thousands of books that becomes the perfect description of cartographic anxiety in action. Cartographic anxiety is a term attributed to a political scientist at t

A map drawn as far back as 1947 in Pre-Communist China has, today, become the source of global concerns that are only increasing as China establishes itself close to the helm of contemporary geopolitics. Illustration by The Geostrata Such is the story of origins of the 9-dash line which initially started out with 11 dashes, only for China to give the Gulf of Tonkin to Vietnam hence, forfeiting two dashes. The South China Sea is visualised by China such that it asserts “histo

Most of the economic spectrum passes through Asia, in Asia the region of the southeast is growing rapidly in its regional cooperation,...