A tribute to Padma Bhushan awardee Madhur Jaffrey, who showed how easy Indian food can be

Any signs of change in Indian bureaucracy, however incremental, must be appreciated. So, it was good to note that the Padma Bhushan for Madhur Jaffrey was recorded in the field of ‘Others -Culinary’. This is an improvement over Tarla Dalal’s Padma Shri in 2007, where the category was just ‘Others’. Or in 1976, when Thangam Philip, the pioneer of hospitality education, got a Padma Shri, it was for ‘Civil Service’. In an-other 20 years, there