Amma’s legacy in the US

Remember the Amma Unavagams (canteens), an initiative by the late J Jayalalithaa, or Amma (mother), to offer quality food at affordable prices? What she did as chief minister of Tamil Nadu is being revived by a Tamilian in the United States. Popular in social media as Dinesh (pictured), the hotel management graduate has started his first hotel in New Jersey and named it Amma's Kitchen. Jayalalithaa's pictures are displayed prominently both outside and inside the outlet. Amma's Kitchen offers a plate of idli for a dollar. “I am indebted to Amma,” he says in a video circulated on social media.