‘Idli love’: Anand Mahindra shares video showing man making rice cakes in ‘turbo’ mode; watch

While sharing this clip, Mahindra wrote, “On the one hand you have ‘Idli-Amma’ who makes her Idlis laboriously & slowly. On the other, you have some tools of mass-manufacturing used to make Idlis at scale! But don’t miss the human touch that will ALWAYS be Indian: the short break taken to share some ‘idli-love’ with the bovine member of the family!”.

On the one hand you have ‘Idli-Amma’ who makes her Idlis laboriously & slowly. On the other, you have some tools of mass-manufacturing used to make Idlis at scale! But don’t miss the human touch that will ALWAYS be Indian: the short break taken to share some ‘idli-love’ with the… pic.twitter.com/uUu4Uj63PM

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) April 1, 2023

In the tweet, Mahindra was referring to 85-year-old Kamalathal, popularly known as ‘idli paati’ or ‘idli amma’, who went viral in 2019 for cooking and selling idlis for just Re 1 to cater to the underprivileged. Back in 2019, Mahindra had helped her secure an LPG connection and in 2022 his company gifted her a house.

Commenting on Mahindra’s video, a Twitter user wrote, “Amma’s idlis are best nothing can beat it, as you said sir, not only human touch, but motherly love which get mixed in, the taste becomes unmatchable!”.

Another person remarked, “But unfortunately we are losing the human touch in everything & everywhere. First we lost it when we started conversing with virtual world instead of relatives & neighbours. Then we lost human touch in our deeds. Even the cars we drive in the future wud not require humans.”