{"id":10991,"date":"2026-04-10T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/10991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:35:21","slug":"amol-rajan-hits-out-at-big-problems-in-britain-as-bbc-star-admits-he-might-raise-children-in-india-im-very-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/10991\/","title":{"rendered":"Amol Rajan hits out at ‘big problems’ in Britain as BBC star admits he might raise children in India: ‘I’m very worried’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amol Rajan has admitted he’s contemplating the idea of raising his children in India over Britain, branding the Asian country “extraordinarily exciting and energetic”.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Mr Rajan has complained that Britain is no longer a place “where history is being made”.<\/p>\n

Mr Rajan, 42, was born in Calcutta, India, but raised in England after moving with his family as a toddler.<\/p>\n

He’s currently the face of the long-running quiz show University Challenge, and previously fronted BBC Radio 4’s Today programme as well as serving as BBC News’ media editor. <\/p>\n

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Amol Rajan is the face of the BBC’s University Challenge <\/p>\n

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Mr Rajan has also been proud and vocal about his Indian roots. Just last year, he fronted his own travel show, Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges.<\/p>\n

The series followed Mr Rajan on the world-famous pilgrimage in India and whether or not faith could help him come to terms with the loss of his father.<\/p>\n

With such an affinity with the country, Mr Rajan has stated that he may turn back to India to mold his children’s upbringings.<\/p>\n

“I can’t tell you how much I love my country, by which I mean England, but I’m very worried about it,” he told Gyles Brandreth on the This Morning regular’s Rosebud podcast.<\/p>\n

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Amol Rajan has opened up about potentially raising his family in India <\/p>\n

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Mr Rajan explained further: “I think we’ve got some big, big problems that need addressing, and one of the things is whether this is the best place for my four kids to grow up.”<\/p>\n

As it stands, Mr Rajan does feel staying put in the UK is the best thing for his children, but he conceded he’s apprehensive.<\/p>\n

“My answer is that it is. But I would say specifically that I’m not sure whether it’s still a place where history is being made,” he delved further.<\/p>\n

“In the 1960s and ’70s, England was where history was being made. It had the extraordinary cultural effusion, the demographic dividend of the baby boomer years, relative peace.<\/p>\n

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Amol Rajan used to host BBC Radio 4’s Today programme <\/p>\n

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“I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, I wouldn’t want to live there, spent a lot of time on the East Coast of America, I’ve chosen not to live there, spent a lot of time in continental Europe, Singapore – Poland’s going through an economic miracle.”<\/p>\n

Turning his attention to the country where he was born, Mr Rajan praised: “But India is definitely somewhere where history is being made.<\/p>\n

“India is a young country, 1.4billion people, it adds one million people to the workforce every single month.<\/p>\n

“It’s extraordinarily exciting and energetic in a way that Britain, at the moment, doesn’t always feel.”<\/p>\n

In regard to his children, Mr Rajan said he’d “like them to experience India and then make up their own mind”.<\/p>\n

“I want it to be their decision,” he added. “My youngest is two, and when she’s a bit older and the long-haul flights are a bit less perilous, I would like to go to India frequently and invite my children to fall in love with the civilisation that’s in their blood.”<\/p>\n

Mr Rajan wasn’t totally writing off England, however, branding it a “wonderful country” and “a peaceful country” that had “actually quite low crime”.<\/p>\n

He’s currently married to UCL professor Dr Charlotte Faircloth, and the pair share four children. <\/p>\n

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Amol Rajan on University Challenge<\/p>\n

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Their journey to parenthood has been far from plain sailing, with the pair being told their chances of expanding their family were slim.<\/p>\n

Speaking previously on the Comfort Eating podcast, Mr Rajan opened up about the advice he received from doctors and the weighing up of whether to seek IVF or not.<\/p>\n

“We were told it wouldn’t happen, that was the thing. There were years, and years, and years, and years, in which it was really tough and a struggle,” he candidly said, via The Mirror. “There was a lot of that going on whilst I was at the BBC.”<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old has been working in the world of journalism for two decades now, first bursting onto screens on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amol Rajan has admitted he’s contemplating the idea of raising his children in India over Britain, branding the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,13,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-10991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-celebrity"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116379970702583603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}