Kattappa's Girl
SOCIETY|May 2018

Her surname screams ‘Kattappa’ from Baahubali. But Divya Sathyaraj is not the star kid to be known by her father’s laurels. The nutritionist and social crusader is an achiever in her own right, as Society finds out in this candid chat

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Kattappa's Girl
Divya Sathyaraj was in the news when her open letter to our Prime Minister went viral. The letter urged that Mr Modi address the issue of harmful multivitamin supplements marketed by a few American pharmaceutical manufacturers in India. Divya stated in the letter how the supplements contained ingredients that should be banned from prescribing to patients.

The vivacious and bold lady is none other than the daughter of superstar Sathyaraj, better known as Kattappa from Baahubali. Like her father, Divya too is a spirited girl, who dares to call a spade a spade and takes her social responsibility as a nutritionist very seriously. She is a qualified nutritionist by profession and is currently practising as a consultant in two different medical units (Suman clinic and Behanced clinic in Chennai), apart from pursuing her doctorate in the subject after having completed her MPhil as a dietitian.

“I was the skinniest girl in our colony. I just hated the sight of food. My neighbours had fat and fluffy kids and my parents were desperate to make me eat. But they did not want to force feed me. Dad was against telling me stories of the boogey man to make me eat. So, my parents came up with an interesting manner of telling me stories about food and its nutritive value and gradually, I started enjoying food,” the nutritionist who once hated food, shares her interesting initiation into nutrition.

This story is from the May 2018 edition of SOCIETY.

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