The magazinea caters to all those Indians who came to live in this orange country untying their knots. Indyana is a progressive and liberal state-of-the-art magazine that aims to provide some food for our thoughts, nourishing our intellect, fostering the long-lost ties
with our roots and reassuring our lost Indian self. It aims to bring back the lost charm of reading magazines in todays e-age where apple is a synonym for technology and advancement.
Indyana was born to bring together the Indian-ness of people on one platform. It’s a magazine in English which is the second language of India and one of the main languages of communication for the Indians both in India and here in The Netherlands.
The magazine hauls out the expressions and the feelings from all who are connected to India someway or the other. As the name implies Indyana is a way to look back to our own India with nostalgia yet it aims to instil the readers with the joy of creating. Creating a new India through exchange of thoughts, through visions, through hopes and fulfilling dreams. Indyana aims to go beyond the boundary of creativity and dream. Its purpose and objective is to reinstate the bonding between the country and the rest of the world through interaction between communities across the globe, through free play of ideas arising from the “Nederlanders” as well as Indians.

Interviews of celebrities from different fields
Cover stories: mainly interesting topics on India written by journalists and authors across Netherlands, India and the United Kingdom
Fashion stories: interviews of eminent fashion designers from India and the new trends in fashion industry
Food: articles written by Indian chefs in Netherlands and India. Food recipes and innovative dishes, designing, presentation and serving tips… restaurant reviews
Education: trends and scopes of education in India and Netherlands. Articles written by renowned educationists from universities in the Netherlands and India.
Guest writers: Journalists, authors from across the globe, economists, business men, entreprenuers will be writing on the new global facet of India and its relation to the west.
Music: interviews of bands and musical maestros from India.
Travel: Travelogues from India and the west.
Photography: Special photographs to capture the essence of India… mood shots to portray the cities, the alleys, the manifold natural beauty.
The Students column: This category is meant for international students and also students with Indian background. Stories related to their upbringing, their adjustment and their education.

Bringing India within the four walls of your room…

A must read… a leisure read… full of entertainment, full of

heart felt real life stories. Get soaked in the Indian

monsoons, enjoy the warmth of Indian chilly winters.

Experience the exotic Indian destinations through the pages

of Indyana… get the fragrance of desi cooking,…indulge

yourself in fashion, dress up in traditional nine yards…

unfasten your soul to the melody of life…

Members of Executive Board

Ms Satarupa Bose Roy
Founder Editor

Satarupa Bose Roy was born in India in 1979. She moved to the UK in 2001 to do Masters in English Literature and thereafter pursued her career in journalism in the United Kingdom and in India at some leading media houses. Later she came to the Netherlands with her husband in 2007. Soon she became an integral part of the Indian Diaspora and with her skills in journalism and media she founded Indyana, which became the first Indian Diaspora magazine in the Netherlands. While she publishes Indyana as a part of pursuing her journalism career, publishing still remains her hobby. She is a full time English Language teacher in the Netherlands and is an active member of the Indian Diaspora. She is the director of publications at one of the oldest Indian think tanks in Europe, Foundation for Critical Choices for India (FCCI). She is also a board member of Indo Dutch Care Foundation which is a non-profit organisation in the Netherlands serving India. Writing is her passion. She has published several books and articles in Bengali, which is her mother tongue.

Mr Ram Lakhina

Ram Lakhina founded the Indo-Dutch Chamber of Commerce to promote business relations between India and the Netherlands. He was President of the Chamber from 1979 to 2003. In 1980, Ram Lakhina co-founded the Foundation for Critical Choices for India (FCCI) and served as its president from 1983 to 1991 and then again from 1994 to 2003.

Lakhina was the first Chairman of the Global Organization for People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), a non-partisan, secular global organisation engaged in promoting the wellbeing of people of Indian origin. Since 1999, Lakhina is the Chairman of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Foundation (Stichting Standbeeld Mahatma Gandhi), Amsterdam.

Another organisation, with which Lakhina has been closely associated for a long period, is the Netherlands India Chamber of Commerce and Trade (NICCT) which came into being as a result of the merger between the India Trade Council and the Indo Dutch Chamber of Commerce and Trade. Lakhina is the Founder and has been the Executive President since its establishment in 2003 up to April 2010. He then served as the Chairman until 2015. He is now the Chairman Emeritus.

Mr. Jasbir Singh

Mr. Singh knows what it is like to move to a foreign country. In 1972, he arrived in the Netherlands from India. A different culture, he didn’t know the language and knew no one. Today, Mr. Singh has over 20 years’ experience in legal practice and holds a specialisation in immigration law. For Mr Singh, insight into personal character and a thorough knowledge of the law is what it is all about: “You can best help someone if you understand what motivates him. You can take full advantage of all possibilities only if you know what someone truly thinks.”

The Indian community is one of the largest expat communities in the Netherlands. As India is one of the world’s strongest emerging economies, an increasing number of Dutch entrepreneurs are discovering that the country can be a rewarding trading partner. Although Mr. Singh has lived in the Netherlands since 1972, his ties with his mother country are still very strong. He is recognised as a leading figure within the Dutch Indian community and maintains close contacts with the subcontinent and authoritative Indian parties. This makes Mr. Singh the right contact person for anyone who aspires to develop business relations with India, a role that he performs with the same passion and commitment as his work as a lawyer.