Writing in India’s Financial Express, Y. R. K. Reddy calls for India to discard the “racist” Mercator projection, which makes “our country look so small on the map,” and advocates a switch to the Peters projection (about which see previous entry). My take is that the Mercator is a lousy projection for a general-purpose world map, for the obvious reasons, but that the Peters is too distorted to be a good alternative. I much prefer the Robinson (see previous entry), but while it’s actually used more by publishers, it’s neither as politicized nor as proselytized. The Peters is first and foremost a political stance rather than a projection.