While you and I as Indians have our own view as to the status of Arunachal Pradesh since we're closer to it, why should Google take the side of one country over another - all things being equal?

Why should Google show Arunachal Pradesh as part of India in its Chinese website when it doesn't know the truth of the matter? You or I knowing the truth makes no difference.

The appropriate action under the International laws should be taken against Google. Tomorrow the whole of Northeast will be shown under China or a disputed territory, what will India do then. Why Google can't show Tibet as disputed, because are claiming their land which is under China's occupation.

Truth is truth Mr. Bhagwad. Arunachal pradesh is the undisputed part of india, even UN recognize it as. Tomorrow china comes and claims on west bengal, that doesn't mean that google should show it as disputed part just to appease china. since it concerns India, not you, you(google) can do it but that can hit you too, as China is now doing with you as in form of censorship and hacking. Just shrugg off these appeasing policy because being the number one search engine you have duty to keep information intact, otherwise dont forget someday your deed might revert back to you too.

Try to please everyone, and you end up pleasing no one! I am sure Google will realize soon the dangers of placating the Dragon more than the Tiger. Their current decision of withdrawing from China for the cockiness of the Chinese is just the tip of the iceberg. Unless the international community realizes the impunity by which China conducts itself both within its territory as well as internationally, and take appropriate measures to penalize them, it's not long before China's hegemonic designs over the world will manifest itself!

People living in the same "disputed territoty" participated in full swing in the voting process of indian Democracy. Isn't is enough for any china or pakistan or google to acknowledge them as legitimate states of India.

What a waste! Google has done what any sensible professional organisation would do.Why should Google decide whose claim is right? Or rather why on earth should google follow the dictat of either China or India. least so India because for obvious reasons China is more important to it than india.

Look at everything with logic not emotions. and for the answer as to why we will forever be behind China---cause all we can do is to whip up emotions and weep and cry and get back to our crooked ways in life!

Google bosses needs to know 1 thng vry clearly . We aren't fools, u've been caught red handed. I protest with vigour and ask thm to apologies for this and make amendments without wasting any time. Arunachal is ours and it is an integral part of India.

Such a unique piece of news.Kudos to the writer for bringing out such an issue in the open.Yes Arunachal pradesh is a part of india ,democratic elections have been running in it since long.And yes china may claim a.p to be its own,but so be it. To show it as a disputed area or as an undisputed part of China is wrong and probably legally.Because the fact is that any county might lay claim on it but it belongs to india. google neednot appease the chinese.

Google must go or change their map!

There Should be nation wide oppose against Google for doing such a irresponsible act.

THIS ACTION BY GOOGLE IS SENSIBLE. GOOGLE OPERATES IN WHOLE WORLD. IT CAN NOT TAKE ANY STAND ON ANY ISSUES UNTIL IT HAS BEEN RESOLVED BY CONFLICTING PARTIES.TAKING ONE STAND WILL CREATE PROBLEM FOR IT IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.

It would be nice if India also demands that Tibet be shown as an independent nation. Why are we falling back on these issues? Lets create some trouble for the Chinese idiots too :)

Sue Google ?! ;)

Google must go or change their map!

Nice observation.....Stupids...making money over polemic matters....

Quoting Rajesh Kalra:
"If, for its security, it needs to take harsh measures that appear draconian, so be it. At least they would not regret later."

Mr. Kalra, to me thats a very naive view point. You seem to be almost restating the policy view of Mr. George Bush here. What do you think is the security issue China is facing today? I also don't understand why you don't consider loosing you expressive freedoms as regretful. Would you rather live repressed than die a free man? What do you live for?

Well every thing is good, but what comes to my mind, be the place undisputed, thats not the concern right now, but I was thinking if Google can be put under a leagel trap?
Can't this be challenged for being inconsistent and misleading?
If it is disputed, we should all agree it, and if it is China or India, or any other godammn place, it should be consisten. This is simply "following double standards".
It's a plea to the leagel pundits, stand-up against this and take some action if it is feasible(technically). Taking things as granted will surely make us look like "idiots", as the auther expressd.

And once again people start cribbing about patriotism! I want to ask a simple question to all who question their fellowmen about being Indian - What have you done for your country? You are the same people who try to escape taxes, buy tickets in black, cheat anyone anywhere you go... So stop crying and see the fact. Coming to the topic... Mr. Writer seems t be trying to publicize himself by pulling a chord of being Indian n showing patriotism. But the fact is Google-India will show in favour of India and China will show what right acc. to them. Now if it shows a part of Arunachal n Kashmir to be in India in the Chineese website, they would file a case against them. Bottomline is they aren't fooling anyone bt just trying not to get into the dispute.
And to make it more clear for the FOOLS made by the Writer, the explanation is:
Google China shows what China thinks...
Google India shows what India thinks...
Google (other domain) shows what the Rest of the World thinks...
In short, it's potraying the image of these regions as seen by the above three domains (parts of the worlds)

I fail to see why Rajesh only looked at Google maps when most of the maps are showing AP as disputed territory. I personally feel this is not going to make any difference. AP is and will always be an integral part of India. Check map in Bing which Microsoft product they show AP as disputed state. Atleast google shows it part of India in India.

Good article ...thats just changing the ground realities ...when exactly was arunachal part of china ? Even Tibet cannot be part of china...

Same for Jammmu and Kashmir ...

The writer claims it is okay for China to enforce censorship to protect its own interest, but not okay for Google to indulge in a form of censorship. Google is very much trying to protect its own interests.

Hi Prakash,

Same old statement which many have made in many posts across the cloud. Let me ask you 1 thing... Did you do anything before or after posting this comment? Would you haev written the same thing, had it been related to our other closer neighbour?

I would like to hear your response.

What an idiotic blog. First of all Google India, a subsidiary of Google, and not Google operates in India. You can force Google India to make changes but not Google Inc. Even China has jurisdiction over google.cn and not google.com
Secondly, by your logic PoK should be shown as a territory of Pakistan and not as a disputed territory. After all, it is administered by Pakistan. Same goes with Aksai-Chin.
Patriotism aside, I expect columnist at ToI to atleast think before what they write.

Thank you for bring this important point to public attention. Is someone in the government reading this?
As for comments that take the view that it's ok for Google to be "neutral" - that's ridiculous - the international borders should be respected as recognized by the UN and the world and as evidenced by de-facto control .

Clearly Editor pointed out some thing which should be taken on a serious note. We cant ignore these types of diplomatic acts by a company working in India. Today they showed it in a map tommrow they can put on the net that AP Belongs to china. And i think Jodhbir is a google employee lol :)

It will be good idea to get the Google management and cane them 21 lashes each, in each of the big cities in Arunachal that way they everyone will know who caned them and where. I am sure they will start depicting the map correctly. If they still continue because of their immoral greed, they should be banned from India

stupid Google, we should never use it again.

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We should not take it lying down from the google. If china is the biggest market, india is not behind and we must apply the same pressure to get what we want from google or kick them out.We are also one of the advanced country in IT.
By showing the maps they are misleading the world and trying to please the chinese for the business. The fact remains india has the physical control over Arunachal not china. And moreover, there is an elected government in Arunachal whereas, none of the chinese states or as a country itself has any elections, so to speak.
The writer is right when he says it hurts when you take every thing for granted and have an attitude of 'sab chalta hai'. We must stop such attitude and should give it back to google in kind so that it comes its senses and no one else messes around with us.

Ban Google all over the world. Do not use google. Google should be shut down immediately.

I for one will not use Google again for anything, be it the Gmail[Use Yahoo] or Search[Use Bling] or Picassa, Orkut(use Facebook). All those who are upset with this piece of news, lets take a joint action. Let us make the B*#$@8$@ bend on there knees and apologise. China is anycase not such a big mkt for them while India continues to be. They can not afford to rub us the wrong way. Let them figure out that this "Political correct" stand is not acceptable to us.

do u know how kashmir is shown in google maps .

dude in the same way

Google is company out to make money by hook or by crook. Much as I admire its search engine I cannot but note with disgust its recent policy towards India. Make money at all costs, without any sensitivities to a India as a nation.

All is well..but wish you were not batting in a cycling gear!!!!

The question of pleasing some country or displeasing can be a matter of debate. However, there is something known as "truth", which can not be contradicted. Independent agencies should act like the guardian of truth. Then only people trust them.Then only they can survive for long.

Sir, I have served in the whole of Arunachal Pradesh (preciously known as North East Frontier Agency NEFA) and have patrolled all the places where the Chinese massacred Indian Army in TAWANG, SE LA, KE LA, CHBRE LA, GESHE LA, BUMB LA, MILE 6, BOM DI LA CHACKO ETC ETC. The question is if the Chinese thought at that time that it is their territory then why did they withdraw?? This only proves they are aggressors. At all these places the Indian Army ran but in the Walong sector the Brigade stuck on comprising of the DOGRAS, KUMAUNI AND SIKH BATTALIONS and the Chinese could not advance. Same thing happened in CHUSHUL AREA. AS for google, it should take the Historical perspective and then independently publiSh the maps. Mac Mohan Line was acceptable TO the Chinees through ages and when the British controlled NEFA they did not object to it. cHINEES are now illegally occupying 50000 sq KMs of AKASAI CHIN along with 20000 SQ KMs of J&K actually belonging to India and illegally ceeded to them by Pakistan. They are in possession of heights all along CHSHUL AIR FIELD as they could not capture it due to valiant fight put in by the Indian troops there. How ever they are now advancing to wards Indus from KIARY along Indus to DAMCHOWK and KARAKORAM. Unfortunately the the India Generals do not have a foresight nor do the higher ups in the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs have any idea of on the ground situation in Ladakh and Arunachal. The TWO FRONT DOCTRINE of the present Chief of Army should have been in place right from 1947 when we are facing armies of two diffferent nations along the same border. For this India would need at least eight mountain divisions for offensive capability with weapons and equipment supported by Air Force in High Altitude. Naval presence is required in the PONGYANG TSO lake ahead of DAMCHOWK which lies 1/3 in China where they already have ships and for the rest 2/3 in India we have no Naval presence. Will our Policy Makers ever realize this.

Many learned comments have been posted but ALL of them revolve around the ethics of Google's action in playing safe with both countries since it has substantial business interests in both and the potential for the future is even more promising.
That said, I support Rajesh Kalra for highlighting this unethical practice for the simple reason that although Google Maps have no loci standi in geopolitics, international relations or determining the sovereignty of a State over its territory, it must remain sensitive to its role and responsibility as an opinion maker.
How many millions of people across the Globe will be wrongly informed - particularly the impressionable student community, many of whom may later tenant responsible positions in the decision making process of their country's governance? How much more bad blood will be created when the fashionable thing to do these days is to talk about globalisation!
My view is that Google has access to all the technology for keeping its maps updated in real time. Therefore the correct thing for it to do would be show the correct position of Arunachal based on historical research and then if need be, add a layer of a different color over the portion in which there is a difference of opinion between India and China and leave it at that.
Please folks we can all do better than indulging in jingoism and xenophobia AND please don't forget that there is more to media and news reporting these days than meets the eye!
Jai Hind!

India & we indian are getting lethargic over the sensetive issues like above. All neighbours of India PAK, CHINA even tiny BANGLADESH, Lanka are showing eyes to india. Can we have a deterrent to them, we are 125 Crore country guys !!! Lets show them our charachter. Jai Hind !!

The programmers do not know the history or politics or geography.they are just including in the program what has been given to them.It is the Google's responsible individuals who are in charge of the maps division that should be held responsible.The Google Company itself should be held responsible in the cour of law.If China is doing in a sneaky way India should protest.Indian leaders should have spine and guts.

Unfortunetly our Politicians are not for the nation (Comparing with China), instead they are busy in their dirty politics and further dividing nation.

If this continues it won't be difficult for Chinese to consider India as Taiwan or Tibet and control us with their strong, arrogant and unified attitude.

Google tried to oppose Chinese, what is the result? Next day they say we are process of compromise......bla bla bla.

The truth is China don't care of anybody they know that they can even control the 'universal helper' (USA).

I don't see anything happening from our side and it won't happen until the last moment...

Good work reporter, please continue this work......
Thanks for the article

This is all bullshit acts of being a soft nation. Gandhian philospphy works when you do not have much choices. Be illogical and put all historic facts/disputes in trash. Our govt needs to do one and only one thing, demand strongly from China and Google to change the map.. else prepare a stretegy to show chinese clumsy face to the world, threaten them to face the consequences, show defiance. We are a powerful nation with best and brightest of human resourses. No one should dare to eyes on us.. no one.

the truth is China and India both are cash cows for google and it's not good to harm your cows.. isn't it ?? so my dear friends go and forget all this which you are in anyway going to do...

Please try to understand this new innovation by google. after spending billiions they found this method of arificial intelligence. This is it . You should appreciate the intelliegence here, you in india Arunachal in your country , you in china then Arunachal is yours... :) guess what ??? if Google realizes at the end of this week that the price they are going to pay for their decision of not censoring search results in china is too much ,,, you will see TAJ MAHAL In china too ...you see ,,the ultimate goal and mission of google is people's happiness ....so if world's greatest population is happy to see TAJ MAHAL within their country , so be it ... what else ??how about about a naval chord connecting china and pakistan displayed on Google earth if your current IP address is from china but your account was created from a Pakistani IP address ?

Mr. Kalra is an embodiment of India's inferiority complex. You made your point that China is wonderful and India sucks. Now move on to a different and more constructive topic! Pan spitting in metro stations, eve teasing and goonda raj that hijacks the democracy - Put your pen to good use - not criticizing Congress but be constructive. If China progressed, good for them - we're not in any contest. It is more important to feed, cloth and shelter than elegance of Pragati Maidan. That country is about 800 years old (free since Kublai Khan) and they finally woke up 25 years ago. We are a 62 year old nation - awake all along but have much more work to do. You lamented in the past that Chinese think big and we don't (actually a Ratan Tata observation). I suggest you get familiar with AP departed CM YSR's Jalayagnam and other programs. He thought big as well! You didn't even know what is going on in second most populous state of your own country!

Hey, I am just seeing this serial in evening about Indian cookery and was hugely disappointed today to see the Indian Map on a TV show in UK. The map these guys didn’t had the whole of Kashmir. Where did it go????? Was the first thought which came to my mind.
What’s wrong with our leaders/bureaucrats. Is anybody bothered? Our country is been eaten away by neighbors and we are just lying over there busy in our scams. Why can’t we raise our voice and ask the world to show some respect towards our borders. How can we be treated like this and still not say anything. Is some one hearing?

TOI can you do something...........

So, if they correct the map, will that stop China from making any claims on the territory? Does the UN go by the boundaries shown on google maps? Do the people of AP become any less Indian if google doesn't show it? I think this guy Kalra is just pointlessly tirading, if I may create another verb

Is it not disgusting to know that the government of India did not raise any objection to Google's criminal act?

Wonder what you are trying to say about Google's double standards.
If you go to www.google.co.in and search for "Map of India", you will see J&K as an integral part of India.
However, if you go to www.google.com and look for the same, you will see J&K as a disputed region with the entire state in dotted outline.
What's the big deal here? Why don't you allow Google to do its job, let the countries sort of their border issues and you pick up something worthwhile to write.
If TOI is paying you to write this, you must be really lucky to get away with such sub-standard articles you write that neither impresses nor inspires anyone.

Google has always adopted double standards. Do no evil is the motto of Google but sadly it has taken a beating. Just consider when Google caved in to the Chinese with the result that liberties were stifled. Why did it take a turn-around? The answer is not far away.
Consider again how copy-rights were ignored. Once again liberties were over-ruled.
Insofar as having Indians show the Indian view-point and Chinese showing their view-point is concerned again it is a case of double-take. The Government should take stern action and force Google International to depict the LOC as it is and not show one of the seven sisters of our beloved country a part of China.
Wake up and force Multinationals to bow to our national will and depict the truth. Microsoft Encarta was corrected: why not Google?
Don't forget A large amount of Google's muscle power comes from Indians who have made Google what it is today.
Jago and don't allow double standards please

CHINA CHINA every where. CHINA CHINA every where. The toys in India is Made in CHINA. The mobile in India is Made in CHINA. The cloths in India is Made in China. The computers in India is Made in China. The foods in India is Made in China. We have allowed China to come in all walks of our lifes. Hindi Chini bhai bhai... old saying and you all know what happed to us next...

have read some of the comments up here

Arunachal is a integral pert of india and should be displayed as part of india throughout the world.As sombody rightky pointed out that if tomorrow China starts displaying Delhi as its part then what.
Google should verfiy the facts, elections are regularly held in Arunachal under Indian Constitution and Google should respect the mandate of people of Arunachal.

Government and People should ask google to take a clear stand on this.

Hi Rajesh,

I always admired your take on issues and your point of opinion.
Please keep writing.

Thanks
Lata

fair point to be raised... but i guess the government has its own ways to get this corrected.... lets not get google as a judge for AruP.

We just need to send clear message to the right people to China.

Thanks,
Vinay

Hi Thanks for putting this post. I have identified this fact about 3 months before by myself. but its good that you opened this issue with blog and have wider readers. Are we just going to read this blog and do nothing or at most post a comment or we are actually gonna take this to google and govt of india. If for any of you who is reading this can take this matter to press and media we can grab the attention of the govt. Rajesh, can you mail to times now regarding this.

Google follows the policy of adhering to the maps in which google hosts its service.

So for both countries , it says wat the country say.

Mr Kalra, one thing beyond comprehension is why are you so concerned about what is shown on the internet. Google is a large corporate house and its sole purpose is to earn profits. And everything is fair in love, war and business.
Just follow this simple rule - If you hate google, don't access it!! And do come up with something more sensible on this blog next time.

this is the most disgusting and cheapest thing done by the Global search Giant.

GOOGLE are you not ashamed of what you are doing

you should also be be banned from India

be ware before you decide an nations teritory

take this as a warning from fellow indians and do the changes

For those who cry n demand to throw GOOGLE out, please check BING as well. I wish the WRITER does some RESEARCH before publishing anything STUPID like this.
Art of publicity: Writing bullsh*t against one of the most popular person/company/... to get the lime-light.
huh! We Indians are not fools, Mr.Writer!!!

why is everyone so angry with what google is doing?? if you want to convince anyone then it should be the chinese government... you convince them and the day they say ap is our land google will post that ap is indian land. why fight against google, those are good guys...

Stupid article..makes no sense...Ofcourse google india and google china maps will show AP as their own respective territories while the international version will show it as disputed territory..I fail to see the problem with this.

Please do your research before posting illogical articles.

Its okay that you are unravelling some of google's fallacies but its nt really ok to read you say Arunachal Pradesh is a disputed territory. it made you sound like you are on china's side. Arunachal is India and vice-versa.

Lame! All your articles.. all of them! Lame!

Kalra, take a break dude

Have you seen the map of India shown in India? The Azad POK is shown part of India but in reality its not. Since childhood I have seen the complete J&K as part of Indian Map but in reality left-right horns are gone to Pak and China. So, who is Indian Govt fooling?

Put a group of men together - traditional Indians, those from Arunachala Pradesh(AP) and the Chinese - to an imaginary man from Mars and ask him to separate them into 2 groups - Indians and Chinese - and I am sure he will lump those from AP to the side of the Chinese. An uninitiated third party like the Africans may also do likewise. Apart from the issue of border sharing, physical looks and culture of of the people of AP may be more aligned to the Chinese. Delhi does not share a common border with China. AP does. This is just another angle of looking at the dispute.

Fantasic Article.. Hats off to the writer who did this research.. It is shame on us that we are not taking any action against such blunders.

Good to see passion!My take: the blogger has given us some facts. People saying that as a business Google can not, should not and will not take sides is valid. We can form our own opinions on the values and integrity of Google and decide to be a big user of Google or try alternatives.

Having said that, my opinion: Google tom toms its values, style, culture, quest for world peace (a la Miss Worlds) more than any other business so their Arunanchal approach is amusing.

On a different subject, Hagen Daaz has more business and visibility because of their misdemeanours. Maybe Google is happy about this blog!!

Why blame Google, when Indians cannot demand action from its government to take enemy to action. Indians are to blame, because they refuse to take any action for 60 years and a day will come when entire India will be a disputed country, due to disputed governance provided by congress and bjp ellite folks. If Indians accept the carrot and stick approach and fall prey to divide and rule of congress, what can China do? What can Google do? What can Pakistan do? Indian governance is disputed first, before anything.

Firstly, this 'post your comments' should be right at the top of the heap - not at the bottom of the world's comments...

Google represents the true american ideal - twist the words till the world does what you would like it to. if not, bomb them!

The same [as with Arunachal] is true with J&K as well...

Two-faced, yes they are - given them the power over us - we seem to have. Can there be an Indian cartographer able to do this job and put up on a website somewhere?

Clearly International law means nothing to google - illegal occupation of territories is actively encouraged [as per the american ideal].

We, the free people of India, have to free ourselves from this western domination. Why do THEY decide what a map looks like?

I am living in Tawang, Arunachal. YES, Arunachal is India without doubt.
China's claims are highly offensive and absolutely ridiculous. Google is a company of world stature and this is an utterly irresposible act from a company of such repute.

Its not long ago, when we read that Indian Flag had to be incorporated in 'Farmville' because of the collective displeasure expressed by the Indian netizens......

Indian netizens...wake up...its nations repute calling once again...do something so that Google is forced to have just one map for Arunachal which is Indian Arunachal.

Well I think from a company's point of view and that too Google , a branded company, this is just a matter of data inconistency which should be strictly taken care by the Google before any allegations or complaints lodged against it.
Its not the matter of country's dispute here, its the matter of a mistake google has committed by giving wrong info which is not acceptable.

Just imagine, google pakistan map will display kashmir on its side.!!

wat an error !!!

great Mr Rajiv.....good pick !!

it's same with kashmir. Pls see the map of kashmir.

What does this government and it's boss Ms. Sonia has to say about this? Do they have some opinion in this matter? Does she even know where Arunachal is? Or she will only know it when her son tries to have a congress joining campaign in Arunachal?

What crap! The author is just speaking non-sense. In fact, I have read some of his posts earlier...and most of the times, he tries to write for audience that doesn't think much or what audience wants to listen. It’s the high time for Indian Journalists to think globally, if at all we wish to be a developed nation.

China has repeatedly said that Arunachal Pradesh as their territory and so is India. Google did the right thing here. For Google China it shows Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory and for Google India, it shows it as Indian Territory. For Google Global version, it has shown it as disputed area.

I know that, during our school days, we were shown a Map of India and we were told this was India. However, in actual terms, there are regions which have been occupied either due to our lack of Military strength or lack of aggressively fighting back. Instead of accusing Google for double standards… why the author doesn’t demand Indian government to settle the issue. The reason is simple… Google is in limelight and this guy wants to gain some extra hits by involving Google, China and India.

I know why the google creates this mischeaf. It is nothing but a publicity stunt. The google deliberately doing this. Further, we cannot do anything if China takes away Arunachal pradesh from us. We just debate over the matter and request China politely not to do that.

Googles should forthwith be ordered by the Indian government to delete all such maps pertaining to India within a week or else leave the country for good!

as a Pakistani i can say china is right.in India so many states which are not Indian states .just captured

While we certainly can be patriotic in demanding our lands, We can be more patriotic in insisting our public servants, from the PM down to the local clerk, give us running steady water and electricity. China gives its people that, can we do the same for Arunachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and points inbetween?

Lets not worry about Google's maps and worry about the actual condition of our roads in Arunchal Pradesh instead.

Fully agree with the Author. If Google has any business ethics or corporate principles, it should not fool the world by its' triple standards'.

well well well, Google's a profit motivated company. That's a business strategy sans any ethics. It must have felt crushed between towering giants and chose to appease both. GOOGLE IN NEUTRAL MODE?

iTS NO MORE ABOUT CRICKET, ITS MORE LIKE CRIC-HATE.

I like your articles, that I have already mentioned it n number of times, but I like reading you more when you write about China.
I dont know what is it about me but either I hate China or envy China, but I certainly (like any other Indian perhaps) cannot ignore China.

Anyways, you have really brought up a nice topic to laymans attention. I, being currently in US, could see the disputed territory version and that in itself pi**ed me off considering we have a democratically elected government in Arunachal and that too for years now. But seeing the Chinese version of map have irritated me further and something should be done about this.
But then I always end up at one question. How?

It is good to see that this is being highlighted. And the way J&K is shown in the 3 maps is weird too!

Also, I would like to bring to everyone's attention what our Government has done about it:
http://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/6231609203

What Rajesh Kalra says is very smart indeed. Google with its computer power may influence the view of the other world for each other. But reality perception would be different if Armies of China walk into Arunachal Pradesh, if, and only if, we have our Armies are standing there to defend our territory. The biggest concern is whether our country is willing to realize the evil design of China in propagating to the world that it is their territory. Google may be as greedy and corrupt or may be more so than our political leaders. A day may come soon when they thy will defy any power and say no to anyone. It may be too late for India to do anything about it. American economy is too highly drugged by cheap Chinese goods and will not argue much with China. India must be careful and keep the willing well equipped Army for realistic defense. Maps are for people who sit in halls of Politics and not fight on the land. If we sit in the Big Halls with folded hands and not station our Armies in Arunachal Pradesh then we will have huge problem and run to the United Nations with our folded hands. Nothing will ever happen.

Yes, we need to pressurise GOOGLE and the Chinese govt. at diplomatic level. This issue should not be taken lightly. We need to raise this point on international stage then only google and china will count us. C'mon Indian Govt. take whatever necessary actions are required, every single Indian is with you. Go ahead.

google is doing business in both sides. They can't support anyone.

Begin such a big company times of india online edition has pictures of Serina Williams underwear and all semi nude and vulgar. Do you think the guy who is giving lecture here in blogs will stop that. NO

I think google is stuck in a bad place here. They thought that they have a solution, i.e., showing 3 versions of the map. I guess that is not a solution either.

Anyone notice that the same map magic happens with kashmir region as well? Entire Jammu & Kashmir shows up as disputed territory on google china maps!

I think if google really wants to play neutral they should show the UN version of the maps and leave the rest up to the countries. They should not come up and show 3 conflicting maps !

Rajesh,
In this blog, you have severly critizised Google for showing JK and Arunachal Pradesh as disputed regions. But what about Times of India itself showing JK not as a part of India. Couldn't believe? Check this site http://infotech.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/5145461.cms.

Now whats ur say?

In my opinion, Google should show it as disputed everywhere untill India and China wont give there consent about the status of that area. Google cannnot take the decision about the disputed area. But on the other hand it is also not ethical showing this area in China if I see from China and showing within India if it is seen from India. Google has no rights to decide about the international boundry.

Tomorrow if Britain claims USA as a part of Great Britain, will they show differently in their maps? It is not a matter of who takes whos side, Google must be consistent.

Not only that......take a look at the state of Jammu and Kashmir....half of it shown as a part of China on http://ditu.google.com/ whereas it's shown correctly on http://maps.google.co.in/ and as Rajesh says - "the fun begins when it comes to opening the map available on the international edition at http://maps.google.com." - the entire state is shown as a disputed territory.

Wondering when India would have power and will to punish Google and others.