Britain`s Curry King Ghulam Noon Dead at 79 |
Mumbai-born British businessman Lord Ghulam Kaderbhoy Noon, who earned the moniker “Curry King” for popularizing Indian chicken tikka and curry in Britain, died in London. Born in Mumbai on Jan. 24, 1936, the 79-year-old Noon breathed his last on October 27 in a country he adopted in 1964. Noon, who survived the 26/11 terror attacks in Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, died a prolonged battle with cancer.While on a visit to India and his birthplace Mumbai, Noon was among the thousands of guests trapped inside the iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel facing the Arabian Sea during the Nov. 26-29, 2008, terror attacks. He was rescued by security forces who stormed and neutralised the Pakistani terrorists. Shiv Sena`s youth leader Aaditya Thackeray expressed grief over the death of Noon, a prominent member of the Dawoodi Bohra community who started with a sweetmeat shop in Mumbai nearly six decades ago and went on to lord it over the British culinary business.In 1996, he was made Member of Order of British Empire, Knight Bachelor in 2002, as Baron Noon in 2011, and finally entered the British House of Lords in January 2011 as a Labor Party leader.
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