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Baljit Singh Padda (b. Oslo) leads Baljits Hospitality Group — a family-run hospitality house operating Indian fine-dining rooms in Oslo. The family's hospitality work in Norway begins in 1982, when Gurdial Singh arrives from Punjab. In 1985 Gurdial opens the original New Delhi in central Oslo, one of the country's first Indian fine-dining rooms. Baljit grows up inside it — on the floor, in the kitchen, learning service as a rhythm before it becomes a business.

Four decades later he operates three concepts: New Delhi on Tjuvholmen (the flagship, relocated to the waterfront in 2018), Masala Politics on Frogner (2021), and Barish (2024). The group is privately owned, reinvests in new rooms, and trains its head chefs in-house. Press coverage spans VG, Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv and Finansavisen.

On 9 April 2025, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations presented Baljit with the Annapurna Certificate at a ceremony in New Delhi — the first Norwegian restaurant to receive the honour, awarded for promoting Indian culinary culture abroad. He works today as restaurateur, operator and cultural bridge between India and Norway.