A Doctor Who Turned into a Food Blogger
She is intelligent, studious and can get the things accomplished as she can focus intensely on her tasks. She was always the topper and a role model for her juniors in school. She studied medicine, became a doctor and worked for few years. She clearly understands the past, present and future. She is also a voracious and vivid reader. She knows the political, social facts and can express her ideas intact. She is Indira, the person who created the food blog called “Mahanandi“.
People say, “You are what you think you are”. Indira says that this equally applies to what we eat. Our body and mind are made of what we eat every day. Only properly fed body will have a proper mind and only a proper mind can think properly. This is her way of looking at food. This is one of her thoughts, but there is a specific reason for her for starting to write about our food: “Why isn’t there anything properly written or shown on the web about our day to day food?” Few years ago, when she would try to find something about our food online, she could not find either decent description or decent pictures. One more thing Indira passionately wanted do was to use our regular names of food as they are. “Why should sambar be called ‘Indian spicy lentil soup’”? That was the beginning of her blog.
When Indira started, she had her blog created on movabletype under the name of ‘Indian Ink’. But then, Indira needed her own space close to our nativity. She wanted to take the name ‘Mahanandi’, the name of a temple town close to our hometown, Nandyala. Domain name Mahanandi was not available, but we had Nandyala.org available. So we registered the name www.nandyala.org and Indira wanted to have her web address as www.nandyala.org/mahanandi. It made really great sense, because Nandyala and Mahanandi are very closely related in reality also. Thus born the website, www.nandyala.org/mahanandi.
One great nature of her that I like most is her devotion, time management and undivided attention to the task at hand. I am very glad that I have known her for at least two decades now and also extremely proud to be a part of her life. I am also very happy to be a part of her work. I did some work on setting up the website and maintaining it. I also worked a little on photography side. She is the director and I’m the photographer. Indira believes that the flow of food and people is incessant. I believe that Indira’s work is also incessant.
