The India story holds promise, but questions are raised too. We sift through the noise to discover how the diverse global voices view India. Every week, Loveena Tandon, a journalist and filmmaker with over twenty years of international experience, talks to influential people of diverse backgrounds about what fascinates them about India, also exploring how their personal journeys connects with that of India. If you're looking to engage or do business with India, tune in for insights from those who've successfully navigated its complexities.
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June 13, 20262 min
High Five | India A Story in the Making | The Last Princesses of Punjab
What does a 150-year-old story of princesses tell us about identity
today?
When Indian, Ethiopian, European and British worlds meet, is identity
something we inherit, or something we create?
In this High Five India from Ep 49 of India: A Story in the Making, we explore The Last Princesses of Punjab, a story of resilience,
resistance and authenticity.
An India story that travelled the world and refused to fit into just one
box.
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May 29, 20266 min
High Five with Sir Vince Cable | Eclipsing the West | Ep 47
"I could smell India before I could see it," a dear British friend told me after his first visit. It made me laugh then think.
To outsiders, India can feel like a sensory ambush: colour, noise, chaos, and contradiction arriving all at once. How does anything get done here?
It's one of the sharpest threads running through this candid High Five with Sir Vince Cable: Episode 47: Eclipsing the West. We get into what the world consistently gets wrong about India, whether Britain still nurses a colonial hangover specially in the corridors of Westminster, the unfinished business of Brexit, and a shifting world order that nobody fully understand yet. Oh, and which dance best describes geopolitics today? You'll want to stay for that one.
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May 16, 202657 min
Names That Built India | Ep 51
What is your name story? And what is the name story of India?
Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?”
For an Indian, the answer may be-everything.
A name can carry faith, family, region, memory, aspiration, love, and the dreams parents quietly place in their child’s future.
Believe it or not, Ram and Lakshmi are among India’s all-time favourite names since Independence. But why? Why did names like Rahul, Anil, Sunil, Pooja, and Rohit rise, return and remain across decades? And what do these names reveal about India’s journey and the hopes, emotions, and imagination of Indians through time?
That’s exactly what Vivek Desai, entrepreneur, and co-founder of iMeUsWe, and his team set out to discover sifting through 1.6 billion public records to trace Indian name trends from 1947 to 2025, decade by decade.
What emerges is more than a name report. It is India’s story, name by name, a living map of faith, cinema, cricket, migration, family pride, social change, and modern aspiration.
We shot this interview at Vivek’s London home, where another beautiful story unfolds.
He doesn’t only collect names. He collects moments that matter from a passion that brings Indians together across the globe-cricket.
From a T20 World Cup-winning ball to a shirt signed by Virat Kohli, and bats used by cricketing icons, this is India’s public memory, preserved as touchstones to a country he carries with love.
Watch this episode. It may make you look closer at your own name, your family history, and the nation of stories we call India.
And it will also make you relive some unforgettable milestones from Indian cricket.
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May 13, 20261 min
India Through Names | Teaser | Ep 51
What do names in India tell us about the country?
Believe it or not, a passionate cricket lover and businessman sifted through 1.6 billion public records to find the answer.
In this sneak peek from the upcoming episode on India:A Story in the Making, where I talk to Vivek Desai, entrepreneur and co-founder of iMeUsWe ( https://www.imeuswe.in/home) , a man who collects moments that matter, from rare cricket memorabilia to family stories and Indian names.
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May 12, 202636 min
Why Are We Anxious? on India: A Story in the Making | Ep 50
“Change in behaviour of a child is a classical symptom of something not going well,” says Dr. Subodh Dave, Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
“And if you’re not on social media, you’re an outcast,” adds Prof. JS Bamrah CBE, Senior NHS Consultant Psychiatrist, speaking about the growing pressures facing young people today.
At a time when the UK is moving towards phone-free schools and debating stronger protections for children online, the bigger question remains: are we doing enough to understand the pressures, problems, and solutions behind rising anxiety in both children and adults?
With 75% of mental illnesses beginning before the age of 24, and loneliness becoming a growing public health concern, this conversation feels more urgent than ever.
Marking Mental Health Awareness Week (11-17 May), Why Are We Anxious? on India: A Story in the Making brings together Prof. JS Bamrah CBE and Prof. Subodh Dave in a deeply relevant
conversation on:
•anxiety, stress and loneliness in modern life• social media pressure, cyberbullying and children’s mental health• the debate around phone-free schools and online safety• how anxiety shows up physically and emotionally• warning signs parents should not ignore• immigrant experiences and culturally sensitive mental health care• stigma around therapy, medication and asking for help• yoga, spirituality, therapy and practical coping tools• kindness, community and why early support matters
An honest conversation about the “anxious generation” and what action, awareness and compassion should look like in today’s world.
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May 10, 20261 min
Why Are We Anxious? on India: A Story in the Making
Change in behaviour of a child is a classical symptom of something not going well,” says Dr. Subodh Dave, Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. “And if you’re not on social media, you’re an outcast,” adds Prof. JS Bamrah CBE, Senior NHS Consultant Psychiatrist, speaking about the growing pressures facing young people today.
At a time when the UK is moving towards phone-free schools and debating stronger protections for children online, the bigger question remains: are we doing enough to understand the pressures, problems, and solutions behind rising anxiety in both children and adults? With
75% of mental illnesses beginning before the age of 24, and loneliness becoming a growing public health concern, this conversation feels more urgent than ever. Marking Mental Health Awareness Week (11-17 May), Why Are We Anxious? on India: A Story in the Making brings together Prof. JS Bamrah CBE and Prof. Subodh Dave in a deeply relevant conversation on:
•anxiety, stress and loneliness in modern life
• social media pressure, cyberbullying and children’s mental health
• the debate around phone-free schools and online safety
• how anxiety shows up physically and emotionally
• warning signs parents should not ignore
• immigrant experiences and culturally sensitive mental health care
• stigma around therapy, medication and asking for help
• yoga, spirituality, therapy and practical coping tools
• kindness, community and why early support matters
An honest conversation about the “anxious generation” and what action, awareness and compassion should look like in today’s world.
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May 8, 20260 min
Youth Under Pressure | Teaser
Loneliness is like smoking 15 cigarettes a day.”
The world has changed, we know that.But the real question is: what action do we take in response?
This Mental Health Awareness Week, we explore what “action” really means for parents, young people, immigrants,and communities learning how to talk about mental health before it becomes a crisis.
Here’s a sneak peek into our insightful episode, Why Are We Anxious? featuring:
Prof. JS Bamrah CBE, FRCPsych: Senior NHS Consultant Psychiatrist, UKProf. Subodh Dave: Dean & President-elect, Royal College of Psychiatrists
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May 1, 202629 min
India A Story in Making | The Last Princesses of Punjab | Ep 49
This is history that doesn’t need dramatising. It already surpasses fiction.
How do you befriend the very Crown that exiled your family?
Born to Maharaja Duleep Singh, the same ruler who, as a child, was made to sign away the Koh-i-Noor, raised in Britain, and moving within the inner circles of the empire that stripped their family of everything the Duleep Singh princesses lived between worlds.
Indian heritage. Mixed lineage. Royal blood.
And yet, at a time in Britain when women couldn’t vote, Sophia, Catherine and Bamba found their voice and used it to fight for the right of every British woman to be counted and heard.
In this episode of India: A Story in the Making, I go inside Kensington Palace’s stunning exhibition The Last Princesses of Punjab, exploring lives that span suffragette activism, exile, empire, identity, and an extraordinary search for belonging.
And behind these three women? An equally remarkable lineage. Their mother, Bamba Müller, of Ethiopian and German heritage, raised Christian. And their grandmother, Maharani Jind Kaur, imprisoned by the British, who escaped in disguise and crossed mountains just to hold her son again.
These princesses lived through the most seismic chapters of modern history, India’s freedom struggle, the suffragette movement, two World Wars, and more. Their story is inseparable from the story of the age itself.
They though, were never just witnesses to history, they were inside it, shaping it, surviving it.
Fascinating falls far short of what they lived through. And what they did.
✨ A must-watch for connoisseurs of real-life stories that inspire.
📍 The Last Princesses of Punjab exhibition at Kensington Palace runs until 8 November 2026 ( https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/whats-on/the-last-princesses-of-punjab/ )
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April 30, 20260 min
India A Story in Making | The Last Princesses of Punjab | Teaser
Who were these “lost princesses” of Punjab, born into royalty, to the last Maharaja of Punjab, but raised in exile? And why is their story being told now at Kensington Palace?
This is a sneak peek to an episode that explores a pivotal moment in India-Britain history, when the British Raj was in its final phase, and India’s independence movement was gathering force.
Exiled by empire yet moving within its inner circles.
In a world that denied women even the right to vote, what was their journey as they searched for who they were and where they truly belonged?
All revealed in this insightful episode, “The Last Princesses of Punjab,” going live on 1st May on India: A Story in the Making.
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April 27, 20260 min
India: A Story in Making |LSE’s India Connect
Did you know LSE’s (London School of Economics ) social science department has a deep India connection?
Two women. One mission- a mother-daughter duo, Herabai and Mithan Tata, who came to LSE in 1919 and took their fight for Indian women’s right to vote to the heart of British Parliament.
And even the foundation stone of LSE has a story to tell, about them, and about India.
Full story on India: A Story in the Making:
Mother Daughter Revolution
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