Glasgow Indian restaurant apologises, will change map logo

A popular Indian restaurant in Glasgow has apologized and pledged to change its logo after an Indian boxing champion pointed out that its branding featured an incorrect map of India missing the country's northeastern region. The incident occurred during a celebratory dinner for India's boxing team following their historic performance at the Commonwealth Games.

The controversy began when Olympic medalist boxer Lovlina Borgohain, who is from Assam in northeastern India, visited Mister Singh's India restaurant with her teammates. Borgohain noticed that a map of India printed on the restaurant's napkins, and also displayed outside the establishment, omitted the entire northeastern part of the country. In a video that later went viral, she expressed her disappointment directly and calmly.

"Please don't take this the wrong way. I felt a little hurt by this," Borgohain said in the video. "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."

The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) president, Ajay Singh, supported Borgohain's concern, noting that the map also failed to...