{"id":3404,"date":"2008-11-27T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2008-11-27T20:29:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T20:29:33","slug":"the_curry_king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Curry King&#8221; in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article5245365.ece\">Alice Thomson &#038; Rachel Sylvester<\/a>: <i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sir Gulam Noon did not duck when he heard the first sounds of gunfire in his suite on the third floor of the Taj Mahal Hotel.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBritain\u2019s most high profile Asian businessman had booked a table at the restaurant but at the last minute he felt slightly ill so changed his mind and decided to have dinner in his room with his brother and two business associates. \u201cIt probably saved my life, the restaurant was the first place the terrorists went.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSir Gulam \u2013 who is known as the \u201cCurry King\u201d, selling 1.5 million ready made Indian meals a week in Britain \u2013 was born in Bombay and started his career running a sweet stall in the city.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAt first he says, \u201cwe thought we were hearing wedding fireworks, it sounded as though crackers were being let off in the lobby\u201d. He and his brother looked out of the window expecting a fireworks display but instead \u201cwe saw men rushing into the building and people fleeing\u201d. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article5245365.ece\">Alice Thomson &#038; Rachel Sylvester<\/a>: <i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sir Gulam Noon did not duck when he heard the first sounds of gunfire in his suite on the third floor of the Taj Mahal Hotel.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBritain\u2019s most high profile Asian businessman had booked a table at the restaurant but at the last minute he felt slightly ill so changed his mind and decided to have dinner in his room with his brother and two business associates. \u201cIt probably saved my life, the restaurant was the first place the terrorists went.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSir Gulam \u2013 who is known as the \u201cCurry King\u201d, selling 1.5 million ready made Indian meals a week in Britain \u2013 was born in Bombay and started his career running a sweet stall in the city.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAt first he says, \u201cwe thought we were hearing wedding fireworks, it sounded as though crackers were being let off in the lobby\u201d. He and his brother looked out of the window expecting a fireworks display but instead \u201cwe saw men rushing into the building and people fleeing\u201d. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}