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A mural depicting a map of an ancient “undivided India” in the country’s new parliament has angered neighbours including Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. The artwork shows India extending into nearby nations including Recommended • Modi inaugurates new Indian parliament in break from colonial past amid opposition boycott • India asks Germany to return 2-year-old child placed in foster care after injury • Air India plane flying from New Delhi to San Francisco lands in Russia after engine problem India said the mural shows the ancient Mauryan empire and that it represents a time of flourishing “people-oriented” governance, and has “nothing to do with politics”. The minister suggested the Bangladesh government has no objection to the mural after Delhi’s clarification, but is seeking an explanation amid pressure from opposition parties. “There is widespread anger over the map,” Mr Alam said. “There is no reason to express doubts about it. However, for further clarification, we have asked the mission in Delhi to speak to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to find out what their official explanation is,” he said. Bangladesh’s principal opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), had raised the issue of the mural. “Displaying Bangladesh as part of the undivided map of any other country is a threat to the country’s independence and sovereignty,” said the BNP’s general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday. Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mumta...

There was stubbornness in the decision of the Speaker, Lok Sabha, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi who laid the foundation of the new Parliament building and participated in its Bhoomi Pujan would alone inaugurate it on May 28, 2023. It propelled more than 20 opposition parties, including the Congress, to boycott the inauguration on the grounds that their pleas that the president of India should do it were completely disregarded. So, while the inauguration by Modi generated protests from the opposition parties within India, a mural placed in the building depicting undivided India, described by parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi as “Akhand Bharat” and showing Nepal. Bhutan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as part of it , have stoked protests outside India, especially in Nepal and Pakistan. In fact Joshi tweeted a picture of the mural and wrote, in Kannada, “The resolve is clear – Akhand Bharat.” ಸಂಕಲ್ಪ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾಗಿದೆ – ಅಖಂಡ ಭಾರತ 🇮🇳 — Pralhad Joshi (@JoshiPralhad) Asked to explain the content and meaning of his tweet, Akhand Bharat in New Parliament 🚩 It represents our Powerful & Self Reliant India. Thank You PM — Manoj Kotak (@manoj_kotak) While Joshi and Kotak categorically indicated that the mural represented Akhand Bharat, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi, The protests outside India against the mural are certainly worrying. In fact, the mural depicting India in possession of territories of neighbouring countries goes agains...

“What we have learnt is that India’s Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said that this is a map of the Ashoka Empire, 300 years before the birth of Christ. It includes a map of the area at that time and a mural. The mural depicts the journey of people. There may be cultural similarities, but it has nothing to do with politics,” Alam was quoted as saying in local media. 'Akhand Bharat', which means ‘Undivided India’, was a concept espoused by Hindutva nationalists envisaging that neighbouring countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka would become a part of India. The concept seeks to recall the glorious past of undivided India, when past empires used to extend to much of geographical regions that are currently independent nations in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Rumblings in Bangladesh Even though Bangladesh’s ruling establishment has sought clarification, the opposition parties seem to have taken umbrage at the mural saying that it threatens the country’s sovereignty.

On May 28, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Parliament building of India, you must have seen some grand pictures. But during that time, one picture made the most headlines and that picture was the painting of Akhand Bharat inside the new Parliament building. This painting depicts centuries-old historical India and it shows the important empires and cities of India... In the painting, you can also see Takshashila and Sindhu of that time as part of India, which are present in present-day Pakistan. Similarly, Bangladesh and Nepal have also been placed on the map of Akhand Bharat. Today Nepal may appear as a separate country on the world map, but culturally and historically this small country is part of the Indian subcontinent. Nepal and India share a 1,860-km-long border with each other. But the cultural and religious heritage that the two countries share with each other is much older and much larger than this border. This cultural partnership between the two countries has been so strong and so deep, that Nepal and India do not seem to be separate even though they are separate countries. That is why it is said that there is a relationship of bread and daughter between India and Nepal. Direct evidence of this unique relationship is clearly found in the thousands of years old Ramayana period, according to mythological beliefs, Mother Sita was the daughter of King Janak of Janakpur and that is why she is also called Janaki. This Janakpur is located in today'...

Here’s why Akhand Bharat mural in new Parliament building stirs controversy A mural in the new Parliament building of India, depicting the Indian subcontinent with sites of ancient Indian influence, has ignited a controversy as it is interpreted to represent the concept of 'Akhand Bharat.' • • • • • A mural of the Indian subcontinent showing the sites of ancient Indian influence installed in the new Parliament building has kicked off a fresh row between India and its neighbours. The mural, which depicts the concept of ‘Akhand Bharat’ has shown Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, among the places of cultural and religious importance that are present outside the boundaries of modern-day India. This has sparked protests in Nepal. “The controversial mural of ‘Akhand Bharat’ in the recently inaugurated new Parliament building of India may stoke unnecessary and harmful diplomatic row in the neighbourhood, including Nepal. It has the potential of further aggravating the trust deficit already vitiating the bilateral relations between most of the immediate neighbours of India,” former Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai said in a statement. The controversial mural of 'Akhand Bharat' in the recently inaugurated new Parliament building of India may stoke unnecessary and harmful diplomatic row in the neighborhood including Nepal. It has the potential of further aggravating the trust deficit already vitiating the_ — Baburam Bhattarai (@brb1954) The issue comes on the sidelines o...

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A mural depicting a map of an ancient “undivided India” in the country’s new parliament has angered neighbours including Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. The artwork shows India extending into nearby nations including Recommended • Modi inaugurates new Indian parliament in break from colonial past amid opposition boycott • India asks Germany to return 2-year-old child placed in foster care after injury • Air India plane flying from New Delhi to San Francisco lands in Russia after engine problem India said the mural shows the ancient Mauryan empire and that it represents a time of flourishing “people-oriented” governance, and has “nothing to do with politics”. The minister suggested the Bangladesh government has no objection to the mural after Delhi’s clarification, but is seeking an explanation amid pressure from opposition parties. “There is widespread anger over the map,” Mr Alam said. “There is no reason to express doubts about it. However, for further clarification, we have asked the mission in Delhi to speak to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to find out what their official explanation is,” he said. Bangladesh’s principal opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), had raised the issue of the mural. “Displaying Bangladesh as part of the undivided map of any other country is a threat to the country’s independence and sovereignty,” said the BNP’s general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday. Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mumta...

Here’s why Akhand Bharat mural in new Parliament building stirs controversy A mural in the new Parliament building of India, depicting the Indian subcontinent with sites of ancient Indian influence, has ignited a controversy as it is interpreted to represent the concept of 'Akhand Bharat.' • • • • • A mural of the Indian subcontinent showing the sites of ancient Indian influence installed in the new Parliament building has kicked off a fresh row between India and its neighbours. The mural, which depicts the concept of ‘Akhand Bharat’ has shown Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, among the places of cultural and religious importance that are present outside the boundaries of modern-day India. This has sparked protests in Nepal. “The controversial mural of ‘Akhand Bharat’ in the recently inaugurated new Parliament building of India may stoke unnecessary and harmful diplomatic row in the neighbourhood, including Nepal. It has the potential of further aggravating the trust deficit already vitiating the bilateral relations between most of the immediate neighbours of India,” former Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai said in a statement. The controversial mural of 'Akhand Bharat' in the recently inaugurated new Parliament building of India may stoke unnecessary and harmful diplomatic row in the neighborhood including Nepal. It has the potential of further aggravating the trust deficit already vitiating the_ — Baburam Bhattarai (@brb1954) The issue comes on the sidelines o...

On May 28, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Parliament building of India, you must have seen some grand pictures. But during that time, one picture made the most headlines and that picture was the painting of Akhand Bharat inside the new Parliament building. This painting depicts centuries-old historical India and it shows the important empires and cities of India... In the painting, you can also see Takshashila and Sindhu of that time as part of India, which are present in present-day Pakistan. Similarly, Bangladesh and Nepal have also been placed on the map of Akhand Bharat. Today Nepal may appear as a separate country on the world map, but culturally and historically this small country is part of the Indian subcontinent. Nepal and India share a 1,860-km-long border with each other. But the cultural and religious heritage that the two countries share with each other is much older and much larger than this border. This cultural partnership between the two countries has been so strong and so deep, that Nepal and India do not seem to be separate even though they are separate countries. That is why it is said that there is a relationship of bread and daughter between India and Nepal. Direct evidence of this unique relationship is clearly found in the thousands of years old Ramayana period, according to mythological beliefs, Mother Sita was the daughter of King Janak of Janakpur and that is why she is also called Janaki. This Janakpur is located in today'...

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