Sir Gulam Noon, British 'Curry King': how I escaped bombed hotel - Times Online

Sir Gulam Noon did not duck when he heard the first sounds of gunfire in hissuite on the third floor of the Taj Mahal Hotel.

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Britain’s most high profile Asian businessman had booked a table at therestaurant but at the last minute he felt slightly ill so changed his mindand decided to have dinner in his room with his brother and two businessassociates. “It probably saved my life, the restaurant was the first placethe terrorists went.” Sir Gulam – who is known as the “Curry King”, selling 1.5 million ready madeIndian meals a week in Britain – was born in Bombay and started his careerrunning a sweet stall in the city. At first he says, “we thought we were hearing wedding fireworks, it sounded asthough crackers were being let off in the lobby”. He and his brother lookedout of the window expecting a fireworks display but instead “we saw menrushing into the building and people fleeing”.

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