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{{Infobox person
|name = Anandita Dutta Tamuly
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|birth_place = [[Titabar]], [[Jorhat]], [[Assam]]
|nationality = Indian
|citizenship = Indian
|other_names = Chilli girl,<br> Indian Chilli Queen
|known_for = Eating [[Bhut Jolokia pepper]]s and rubbing them on her eyes.
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|occupation = [[Homemaker]]
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|predecessor = Anita Crafford
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|spouse = Pankaj Tamuly
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|awards = Limca Book of Records
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'''Anandita Dutta Tamuly''' ([[Assamese language|Assamese]]: '''আনন্দিতা দত্ত তামুলী'''), maiden name '''Anandita Dutta''', is an [[Assamese people|Assamese]] woman from [[Titabor Town]] in [[Jorhat]] district of [[Assam]].<ref name="ab">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090410/jsp/northeast/story_10799180.jsp|title='Hottest' chef gets a taste of hottest jolokia - Gordon Ramsay finds Assam's chilli girl's performance for Guinness records 'unbelievable' |date=10 April 2009 |publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=24 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="cd">{{cite web|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/assamese-woman-munches-worlds-hottest-chillies-sets-record_100177882.html|title=Assamese woman munches world's hottest chillies, sets record|last=Hussain|first=Syed Zarir |date=April 10, 2009|access-date=9 January 2010|location=Jorhat}}</ref><ref name="ij">{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Worlds-hottest-woman/articleshow/1856410.cms|title=World's 'hottest' woman|last=IANS|date=5 August 2006|work=The Times of India|access-date=24 January 2010}}</ref> She is married to Pankaj Tamuly and is mother of a son. She is known for eating and rubbing [[Bhut Jolokia pepper]]s on her bare eyes.<ref name="cd" /><ref name="ef">{{cite web|url=http://www.zimbio.com/Sarah+Symonds/articles/26/Anandita+Dutta+Tamuly+blazes+through+chili|title=Anandita Dutta Tamuly blazes through chili-eating feat|last=Bengani|date=April 11, 2009|publisher=Zimbio|access-date=9 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="gh">{{cite web|url=http://www.24-timepass.com/blogs/indian-chilli-queen-anandita-dutta.htm|title=Indian Chilli Queen: Anandita Dutta|publisher=24timepass|access-date=9 January 2010}}</ref> The chilli, native to Assam, is the world's second-hottest chilli pepper.<ref name="cd" /><ref name="ef" /><ref name="gh" />

==Childhood effect==
When Anandita was five, she had a sore tongue and her mother applied a chilli paste to cure the infection. Since then she developed a penchant for chillies.<ref name="cd" /><ref name="ij" /><ref name="gh" /> While children of her age roamed the village looking for berries, she used to look for Bhut Jolokia pepper which she ate with salt.<ref name="ef" />

==Making records==
In 2006, Anandita had entered the [[Limca Book of Records]] by eating 60 ghost chillies in two minutes and smearing 12 chillies in her eyes in one minute flat.<ref name="ab" /> Since then she has practised this in an attempt to enter the [[Guinness World Records]] by beating South Africa’s Anita Crafford, who created a record by eating eight [[jalapenos]] in a minute in 2002.<ref name="cd" /><ref name="gh" />

==In reality shows==
Anandita's chilli eating was aired on Zee TV's reality show [[Shabaash India]] on August 29, 2006.<ref name="ij" />

==Towards Guinness Records==
{{quote box|width=32%|quote= "I felt so terrible I could eat only 51. In 2006, I had eaten 60 of them in two minutes for a local record event. But I am sure I shall make it to the Guinness World Records."|source=Anandita to The Associated Press.<ref name="ef" />}}

On Thursday night, April 9, 2009, Anandita performed her feat at the district library auditorium, [[Jorhat]] before hundreds of people for a [[Channel 4]] programme on global food being anchored by celebrity British chef [[Gordon Ramsay]]. She ate 51 [[ghost chilli|red-hot chillies]] in two minutes and smeared seeds of 25 chillies in her eyes without shedding a tear.<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" /><ref name="ef" /><ref name="gh" /> According to Diganta Saikia, one of the event coordinators, the Guinness authorities had earlier asked them to authenticate this with a supervised recording of the feat.<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" /><ref name="gh" /> The coordinators accordingly asked Ramsay to be the adjudicator for Guinness and he agreed to pursue Anandita’s claim as the world's 'hottest woman' by submitting video clippings.<ref name="cd" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7993925.stm Indian in record chilli attempt], BBC News.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080603222236/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1856492.htm Woman aims for record feast of world's hottest pepper] ABC News.

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