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A pale greyish brown door curtain is behind him and to the left there is a narrow, rectangular, tan-coloured wooden table with two drawers. There is a chocolate coloured telephone on the table. Propped up on the table and leaning against the beige wall there is a white mosquito racquet, the battery-operated bat that zaps mosquitoes.","Alt_Text_Photo3":"Vais, wearing his grey shorts and navy blue shirt, sits in his wheelchair on a beige cement path in the garden. On either side of the path there is lush foliage – bushes in shades of dark and light green. There is a sky blue plastic bucket next to the wheelchair. Vais is reaching down to it with a sky blue plastic mug. He has just filled the mug with water from the bucket and has started pouring water onto a plant.","Alt_Text_Photo4":"Vais, wearing his grey shorts teamed with a pale sky blue T-shirt, sits in his wheelchair in a small storeroom with a smooth grey cement floor. He is grinning at the camera as he holds a clear plastic jar with a red top in both hands. There are similar plastic jars and containers of different sizes stacked on the bottom tier of the beige two-tiered cement shelf built into the wall. The top tier has plastic containers in purple, green, orange, royal blue and pale sky blue.","Alt_Text_Photo5":"Vais, wearing his grey shorts and a salmon-pink half-sleeved knitted shirt, is in his wheelchair in the drawing room. Sitting at the left of the frame, he has turned his face to the right to smile at his wife Nigaar Begum (24) and mother Jamsha KV (51). They sit to the right on a divan and are smiling back at him. They are all holding white porcelain cups in their hands. Nigaar wears a black full-sleeved burqa and black dupatta draped over her head, shoulders and chest. The cuffs of the burqa sleeves and the edges of the dupatta have floral embroidery in white and maroon. Jamsha wears a white salwar-kameez. A white dupatta with scalloped edges is draped over her head, shoulders and chest. There are two single sofas at right angles to the divan. Every piece of the dark tan wooden furniture is furnished in plaid checks of different shades of brown. On the light grey marble floor there is a large rectangular rug in a hazy sandal-and-brown pattern. A rectangular teakwood side-table is placed on the rug in front of the divan. It contains two white porcelain bowls of light brown fried snacks. There are two doors in the beige wall behind them. The one to the right shows an open doorway leading into another room. 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It was while playing football in high school one day that Vais found he was losing his balance and his legs weren’t able to kick as they should. He was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Regular injections allowed him to lead a ‘normal’ life and become a Commerce graduate. \n\nHe was around 26 when he started using a wheelchair. A physiotherapist comes home for daily sessions. MS has also affected the clarity of his speech. Vais married Nigaar Begum (24) from Telangana; a matchmaker arranged the alliance. Nigaar travelled to Kozhikode to meet Vais and get to know him and the family before the marriage. She liked his approach to life; she found him positive and enthusiastic. \n\nVais’s family assists him in some aspects of his personal hygiene but he goes about his routine independently. He started a business of selling organic curry powder: he procures spices, sun-dries and grinds them, and markets them in half-kilo packs through a WhatsApp group. His mother Jamsha KV (51) helps him in the business. He wants to have his own brand and label, and sell his products to not just a familiar circle of individual customers but also to a wider clientele through retail outlets. Eventually he wishes to expand his product range to include other commodities as well. Vais has ambitions for his wife too. Nigaar is awaiting her B.Com exam results and wants to pursue higher education. Vais is encouraging her to do a Chartered Accountancy course.","Quote":"“It is up to us to make the most of the opportunities that life gives every one of us”","Status":"Published","Video":null,"Website_Content":"Kerala has always been a football-mad state and Vais Muhammed (31) from Kozhikode is no different from most of his compatriots. He has been rooting for England during the current FIFA World Cup series; his favourite player used to be Wayne Rooney before his retirement and now it’s Marcus Rashford.\n \nIt was while playing football in high school one day that Vais found he was losing his balance and his legs weren’t able to kick as they should. A diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) followed, and regular injections allowed him to lead a ‘normal’ life. After finishing his 12th standard at Silver Hills School he joined B.Com in Farook College. He dreamt of doing a CA course and becoming a chartered accountant like his elder brother Vasil Muhammed who heads an organisation in Chennai. He stayed in a hostel in Kochi and cleared the Foundation programme in the first attempt.\n \nCommerce runs in the family. Vais’s father Iqbal Muhammed owns a hotel and his younger brother Vaseem Muhammed just completed his MBA in Chennai. Vais was around 25 when his family, acting on someone’s advice, stopped the injections and put him on alternative medicines and treatment. His MS worsened and within a year he had started using a wheelchair. He stopped his studies and started physiotherapy which continues till date – a physiotherapist comes home for daily sessions. MS has also affected the clarity of his speech.\n \nNothing daunted, Vais took his challenges head on. As he puts it, “Life gives an opportunity to everyone. You just need to be patient and when your time comes you should grab the opportunity and make the most of it.” His family assists him in some aspects of his personal hygiene but once he’s in his motorised wheelchair he navigates easily and goes about his routine independently. He started a business of selling organic curry powder: he procures turmeric and other spices, sun-dries and grinds them, and markets them in half-kilo packs through a WhatsApp group. He has a set of customers who buy from him regularly. His mother Jamsha KV (51) helps him in the business.\n \nFour months ago, Vais got married to Nigaar Begum (24) from Telangana; a matchmaker arranged the alliance. Nigaar is one of three daughters of a businessman father. She travelled to Kozhikode to meet Vais and get to know him and the family before the marriage. She liked his approach to life; she found him positive and enthusiastic. She says with a maturity that belies her age, “What happened to him can happen to anyone. How they take it and yet live their life is an indication of who they are.”\n \nWhile MS has impaired Vais’s ability to speak clearly, it hasn’t dented his eagerness to communicate. Nigaar tells the EGS interviewer, “If you spend a couple of days with him, you will be able to understand what he says.” Bubbling with enthusiasm and energy, she describes her husband as “a loving and handsome man”! She says he keenly follows football on his mobile and loves to travel with his family and friends.\n \nAmbitious at heart, Vais wants to develop his current business: have his own brand and label, and sell his products to not just a familiar circle of individual customers but also to a wider clientele through retail outlets. Eventually he wishes to expand his product range to include other commodities as well. Vais has ambitions for his wife too. Nigaar is awaiting her B.Com exam results and wants to pursue higher education. Vais is encouraging her to do what MS had forced him to abandon – a Chartered Accountancy course. \n \nNigaar describes her husband as a man with a positive attitude to life, who has accepted his condition and wants to move ahead. Towards the end of the conversation, he took the phone from her and uttered the words, “Thank you.”\n","State_name":"Kerala","Display_Order":266}}},
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