India Hicks, celebrity grand-daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lady Edwina, finds that her grandfather’s name has passed into history with India changing at a rapid pace. The 38-year-old model, who was recently in India on a working holiday, talked to Vimla Patil about her family, work and impressions about the country her grandfather had presided over.

She has carried a flame for India, a country after which she is named, since her childhood. She is India Hicks, the grand-daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy and the first Governor-General of India. “My family has had deep emotional bonds with this country,” she said during her recent visit to India for the Cartier Charity Show and modelling assignments for top Indian designers, “My grandmother worked hard to rehabilitate refugees who crossed the Partition line between India and Pakistan in one of history’s bloodiest carnages.

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