Meet 106-year-old Mastanamma from Andhra Pradesh, the oldest YouTuber in India
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The internet is quite a platform in these times, giving a push to
many talented individuals to showcase their work on platforms such as
YouTube, through videos. Gadget reviews, cooking classes, comedy, and
several others genres find their way onto YouTube. Possibly the oldest
YouTuber of India, 106-year-old Mastanamma from Andhra Pradesh is now a
popular personality on the internet, thanks to her proficiency with
cooking.
According to Deccan Chronicle,
Mastanamma has a channel on YouTube, which is being managed by her
grandson, where she is seen cooking from scratch, producing several
popular local flavours of the state of Andhra Pradesh. Her channel, Country Foods, now has over 250,000 subscribers.
Hailing from Gudiwada, in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh,
Mastanamma likes to do her own chores with respect to cooking, all by
herself, without any assistance from the younger generations of her
family. She is well known in the locality for treating everyone who
comes to her like a typical Indian grandmother, by ensuring they are all
well fed.
Her first fan was her grandson himself, K. Laxman, who got the idea
of starting a channel on YouTube when he made food for himself one night
with his friends. Speaking with Barcroft, he said,
On a hungry night, my friends and I prepared some food
for ourselves, and we thought about starting a YouTube channel, so that
people could watch and learn from these cooking tutorials. Our first
video went viral surprisingly. That was when I decided to run this
channel, to get people to know and understand the traditional way of
cooking with fresh ingredients, with the help of my grandmother. She
didn't understand what was happening when we were filming the videos,
but when she started to realise it, she felt very happy.
The woman is an expert in making seafood and egg dosas, and she
proudly says that everyone in the village adores her food. This
centenarian proves that it is never too late to start any endeavour,
however novel and strange to us.
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