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Barack Obama Reveals That He Can Cook ‘Daal Chawal’ And Desi People Are Shipping It
December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 Eminraja 98 Views
Whether someone agrees with him or not, there is no denial in the fact that
Barack Obama is one of the most influential men that the modern times has seen. Impressive personality coupled with a good sense of humor is what has helped him gain the dominating place he has in people’s beliefs.
Well now, he has given Desi people a reason to love him.
As reported by NDTV, Obama took the stage at HT Leadership Summit and expressed his love for
Daal Chawal. He not only disclosed his love for the Desi dish but also revealed that he can actually cook it well as well.
He told that he learned that in his student years when he had an Indian roommate. Plus, it is not the only desi dish he can cook. He said that he can make some other dishes as well.
“MY KEEMA IS ALSO GOOD, AND MY CHICKEN IS OK.”
Keema Curry and Peas
Indian NDTV has made his roommate an Indian national but actually his roommate were from different countries.
including Pakistan. Obama visited Karachi and stated with his Pakistani friend in his home in Karachi.
Here is a list of his collage time roommates.
Below is a list of Barack Obama’s friends and roommates who knew him in high school and college.
* Robert McCrary a former classmate at Occidental College. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw Obama as "cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others."
* Paul Carpenter Obama's freshman roommate at Occidental and now a Los Angeles lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a "a good bodysurfer", "an athletic guy", and "superbright".
* Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York's Lehman College.
* Jon K. Mitchell a friend from Occidental who now plays bass for the country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
* Imad Husain a Pakistani and Obama's freshman roommate at Occidental. Husain is now a Boston banker.
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Mohammed Hasan Chandoo a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. He is a now a self-employed financial consultant living in Armonk, New York.
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Wahid Hamid a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental and stayed with the family of Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York City.
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Vinai Thummalapally an Obama college roommate in the summer of 1980. Thummalapally is
from Hyderabad, India. Obama visited Hyderabad, India and
Karachi, Pakistan during a three week period with Wahid Hamid after his graduation from Occidental. [1] He is president of a CD and DVD manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Sohale Siddiqi is identified as "Sadik" in Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as "a short, well-built Pakistani" who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party.
Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama's roommate when he attended Columbia University. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal having over stay his tourist visa. [2] Obama knew Saddiqi when he visited Chandoo and Hamid at Occidental. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in Seattle working for a community theater.
* Andrew Roth knew Obama at Occidental College and in New York City. Roth said that back then "The thought...never crossed my mind that he would be our first black president."
* Cassandra Butts a friend from law school who
now works at the Center for American Progress. Of Obama she said, "People see in him what they want to see."
* Michael Froman a friend from law school and now an executive at Citigroup.
* Laurence Tribe a professor at Harvard who said Obama was one of his two best students. "He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information." [3]