Hyderabad, Feb. 14 -- Nowadays Indian cuisine is hugely popular throughout the world. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the dish chicken tikka masala is considered to be one of the national dishes of Great Britain. An entry in the encyclopedia notes: "The dish has taken on large cultural significance in Britain. It is widely considered to be one of the country's national dishes." But who was the first Indian man to take Indian food to the UK in an effort to popularise it there?

It was a man named Sake Dean Mahomed. That was how the Englishmen spelled the name but we can surmise that the name must have been Shaik Deen Mohammed. However official records mention his name as Sake Dean Mahomed and he too had no qualms in writing his n...