“Victorian Multicultural Commission under fire for booklet showing distorted map of India, community demands apology”, The Australia Today, November 11, 2025
“The Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) is facing community outrage after publishing its Annual Report 2024-25 featuring a decapitated map of India.
The report, intended to highlight cultural diversity and community harmony, instead triggered frustration and hurt within the Indian diaspora.
The issue surfaced when Indian-Australian community members posted on social media an image from page 13 of the VMC’s Annual Report 2024–25, questioning why major Indian regions — including Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and parts of the north-east such as Sikkim, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh — were either missing or inaccurately depicted…….”
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