Reportedly if Kollam Collector B Abdul Nasar could wish for anything, it would be for his late mother to see that her son tasted success after a lifetime of struggle. He said “By the time I reached somewhere in life, she was not healthy enough to realize that her son was indeed doing very well”.
Furthermore at age 5, Nasar lost his father and spent the rest of his childhood in orphanages across kerala until the age of 17. If he has tasted success in his career today, it’s because of the huge role his late mother Manjumma played, he says. It was his mother's burning desire to get her children to study well that drove him to ace the game of life.
Moreover the 49 year old moved across districts in kerala since early childhood, and worked at least six different kinds of jobs. Nasar said "When my mother was widowed early on, it put a lot of financial stress on her. With six children to feed, she had to take to domestic work to sustain her family. Although she wanted her children beside her, relatives and other folks around us convinced her to send me to an orphanage in my native place, Thalassery, to ease her burden”. Nasar is delighted about his current posting, but the journey has been nothing short of arduous.
