A 38-year-old IAS officer pens down his story that begins from an orphanage and ends at Mussoorie's IAS academy.
His father's death reduced an 11-year-old Mohammed Ali Shihab to mere four digits. The cheerful kid who longed to take wings and fly, found himself confined to the four walls of an orphanage. And, 4748 was his identity there. Currently the collector of Kiphire in Nagaland, Shihab's eyes glow as he narrates his journey from a small yatimkhana in Kerala to Mussoorie's civil services academy.
The suave IAS officer's story begins in 1991 with the death of his father, who succumbed to asthma. The first chapter of Shihab's autobiography Viralattom (fingertip) details what happened on that fateful day. Koroth Ali was the only breadwinner of the family comprising his wife Fathima and five children—two sons and three daughters. Losing his vayichi left a deep void in Shihab. The writer fondly recalls his years with vayichi later on in the book.
The family often found it difficult, and more so after Ali's death, to deal with the mischievous and stubborn kid in Shihab. Add to it, the burden of impending poverty. They had to eventually sent Shihab and two sisters to orphanage.
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