When was Ritu Dalmia born?

Ritu Dalmia was born on 1973 in Kolkata.

Ritu Dalmia

Indian chef

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Ritu Dalmia (born 1972) is an Indian celebrity chef and restaurateur. She is the chef and co-owner of the popular Italian restaurant Diva in Delhi, which she established in 2000, with co-founder Gita Bhalla under partnership firm "Riga Food". Other restaurants of company include 'Latitude 28' and 'Cafe Diva'. She hosted a TV cookery show, 'Italian Khana', for NDTV Good Times for three seasons, and published her first cookbook by the same name in 2009.

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Born: 1973 wd
Place of birth: Kolkata wd
Citizenship: India wd
Occupation: restaurateur, businessperson wd

Awards wd

Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity

About

She has been hosting Travelling Diva on NDTV Good Times since 2 February 2012.

Dalmia is a lesbian and a prominent LGBT rights activist. In June 2016, Dalmia and five others, all members of the LGBT community themselves, filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. This resulted in the 2018 landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar and others v. Union of India in which the Supreme Court unanimously declared the law unconstitutional "in so far as it criminalises consensual sexual conduct between adults of the same sex".

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When was Ritu Dalmia born?: Ritu Dalmia was born on 1973 in Kolkata.

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