Ritu dalmia biography channel

Indian celebrity chef and restaurateur

Ritu Dalmia (born 1973) 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".^[1] Other restaurants of company include 'Latitude 28' and 'Cafe Diva'.^[2][3] 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.^[4][5]

She's been hosting Travelling Diva on NDTV Good Times since 2 February 2012.^[6]

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.^[7] This resulted in the 2018 landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar a