Khanna recounts his journey from Amritsar to New York and his two-decade mission to globalise Indian cuisine.
The New York Times gave it three stars, making it the first Indian restaurant to earn that rating since Tabla in 1999. Bungalow has also drawn critical weight.
Khanna was earlier behind Junoon, the first Indian restaurant in New York to earn a Michelin star.
The episode takes up Bungalow, which the show describes as selling out in nine seconds with a 10,000-person waitlist, and the sacrifices behind that success, including the loneliness of building a life abroad and why his connection to India has grown stronger with distance.
His TIME entry was written by Eric Ripert, the Le Bernardin co-owner, who praised Khanna’s use of food as a “universal language” and called his restaurant Bungalow “a living expression of storytelling. For Khanna, the recognition lands after four decades of work, from selling food as a young man in Amritsar to building one of New York’s hardest tables to book. Khanna’s rise is the subject of a recent episode of Diaspora Dialogues by TOI, the Times of India video podcast hosted by Sujatha Padmanabhan. In the nearly hour-long conversation, he traces the path from Amritsar to New York and the two-decade effort to bring Indian food to the world stage. He also discusses the influence of his mother and the diaspora’s role in changing how the world sees Indian food.