His parents, Nishanth and Ramya, have watched this obsession evolve. Both are chartered accountants and have learned to balance work, hospital visits, and Mahi’s ever-expanding world of sharks. “Mahi’s passion for animals started at a very young age,” says Ramya. “At two, he was so crazy about elephants that we used to play Colonel Hathi’s March from The Jungle Book even when he was recovering from surgery. He had over 200 elephant figurines before switching to dinosaurs, which he still loves, and then fell madly in love with sharks.”
