Sri raghavan iyer biography

Early life and background.
Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer was born in Madras, India on March 10, 1930, the son of Narasimhan Iyer and Lakshmi Iyer.
Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer was born in Madras, India on March 10, 1930, the son of Narasimhan Iyer and Lakshmi Iyer.

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Next week, the Twin Cities community will gather to celebrate the life of James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Raghavan Iyer, a titan of the food world who passed away due to pneumonia complicated by a five-year fight with colorectal cancer in March, at age 61.

Attempting to sum up Iyer’s impact on the Twin Cities food scene — and more broadly on Indian cuisine in America — is a tall order. Iyer left his native Mumbai for the small town of Marshall, Minnesota at age 21. There, he yearned to find cuisine in line with his palate and vegetarian sensibilities, and eventually trained himself to cook Indian recipes. He later set roots down in the Twin Cities, where a 1999 deal with Betty Crocker jump-started his career as a prolific cookbook author, and his penchant for Indian cooking became the centerpiece of his life’s work.

Over the course of seven cookbooks — including the potato-centric Smashed, Mashed, Boiled, and Baked and the best-selling 660 Curries, which covers classic Indian curry dishes in great breadth — Iyer became known for his ability to drill recipes down

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Raghavan Iyer, an Emmy winner, a James Beard Award winner, and IACP Award-winning Teacher of the Year, is the author of 660 Curries, Indian Cooking Unfolded, Betty Crocker’s Indian Home Cooking, and The Turmeric Trail. He is also host of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Asian Flavors and a member and President (2014-2015) of The International Association of Culinary Professionals. He was just included amongst the top 100 influencers ever for home cooks by Epicurious.com and was also featured twice in the New York Times in 2016. A native of Bombay who is fluent in six languages, Raghavan is a culinary educator, spokesperson, and consultant to numerous national and international clients including General Mills, Target, Canola, and Bon Appétit Management Company (BAMCO), where he helped launch an Indian Meals program and trained all BAMCO chefs across the United States in Indian cuisine and Global Vegan Cuisine through over 75 national workshops. Additionally, at Case Western Reserve University Iyer helped design and open an Indian-concept café, Naan in August 2014. Raghavan receiv

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Sriram Raghavan

Indian film director and screenwriter

Sriram Raghavan
Raghavan in 2019
Born	(1963-06-22) 22 June 1963 (age 61) Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Occupations	Film director screenwriter
Years active	1987-present
Relatives	Shridhar Raghavan (brother)

Sriram Raghavan (born 22 June 1963) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. He is primarily considered an auteur of neo-noir action thrillers.

Raghavan made his directorial debut with Ek Hasina Thi (2004). He then went on to direct the critically acclaimed Johnny Gaddaar (2007), an adaptation of the 1962 French novel Les mystifiés by Alain Reynaud-Fourton; followed by the action spy film Agent Vinod (2012) starring Saif Ali Khan; a critical and commercial failure. Raghavan's followup Badlapur (2015), a film based on Death's Dark Abyss by Massimo Carlotto met with positive reviews and was a moderate commercial success at the box office.

Raghavan's prominence increased with Andhadhun (2018) which tells the story of a blind pian