@NalinisKitchen more power to her!! a normal respectable boy will respect her frankness, unlike those toxics, who believe that their patriarchal privileges are a divine right under the guise of 'sanskaari BS'.
@PoojaPriyam_ she escaped with her life, certainly not clairvoyant that the next victim of Monsterbala singh would pay with her life. Wondering if that other ex husband deserves to serve in the army.
@theliverdoc@pendown@dittyannajose The successor to Moringa powder as the next marketed 'superfood' .. EYEWASH meant to enrich the manufacturer's pocket.. Eat it fresh , spiced to perfection & cooked well!
@BDUTT@DeShobhaa seriously.. does this woman and the good for nothing son she spawned even qualify as Sapient humans? tome to see them with the same lens as one sees rabid or feral animals who are an inherent danger to society.
@virsanghvi@airindia Nobody wants to say the uncomfortable truth out loud. The average Indian lacks the training and will to respect public property. (proof point.. all the Vande Bharat trains and how they get so wrecked up by passengers - SAME with Air India).
@theliverdoc@aryanhainaa Freedom of expression does not allow any of these ppl to metaphorically scream 'FIRE' in a dark room. They certainly disproved that old adage about 50 monkeys with 50 typewriters being able to produce shakespearean level literature..
Call India a “hellhole” if you want but your healthcare says otherwise.
~47% of your generics prescriptions come from India.
~40% of your drug demand depends on it. You’ve saved $2.9 trillion in a decade because of it.
~Every 6th patient is treated by an Indian-origin doctor. Over 80,000 Indian-origin doctors treat your patients.
Mock India all you want but your system leans on it! Idiot @realDonaldTrump
His name is Vikas Khanna.
Born in Amritsar 1971. With clubfoot. Doctors told his mother he may never walk normally.
His mother said this. My son is not born to walk. He is born to fly.
He wore leg braces as a child. Could not run until he was 13. While other boys played outside he sat in his grandmother’s kitchen in Amritsar learning to cook.
He grew up during the 1984 Amritsar riots. He said later that he learnt the power of hunger from his grandmother during those years.
At 16 he started selling chole bhature to a local school. At 17 he opened a catering service from the back of his house. By 23 Lawrence Gardens had grown into a full banquet hall.
Then one day the bulldozers came. A legal dispute over construction. The entire banquet was razed to the ground at the peak of wedding season.
He said this. The bulldozers didn’t just break the ceiling. They broke my spirit.
He moved to New York in 2000 with nothing.
Indian food in New York in 2000 was not respected. It was looked down upon. He worked 31 different jobs. Washing dishes. Cleaning homes. Selling food on the streets of TriBeCa. Walking dogs. He slept at Grand Central Station.
On the 7 train people called him curry boy.
In France a chef told him this. Black hands don’t cook. They only clean.
He walked out of that kitchen and made a promise. He would return to France only as a Michelin Star chef.
He kept working. He opened Junoon in New York. Within one year it earned a Michelin Star. It held that star for eight consecutive years.
He has now earned 8 Michelin stars across his career.
He hand painted a 1200 page book on Indian cuisine called Utsav and presented copies personally to Barack Obama. Pope Francis. The Dalai Lama. Queen Elizabeth II.
During COVID he ran the Feed India initiative. 50 million meals distributed across India.
On April 16 2026 TIME magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
He posted this the next day.
From selling bhatura chole at Vivek Public School in 1989. To sleeping at Grand Central. To 8 Michelin stars. There were years of humiliation I rarely speak about. Moments that nearly broke me. And still I kept going.
A boy from Amritsar with clubfoot who could not run until he was 13.
Named in TIME 100 at 54.
His name is Vikas Khanna.
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