Every once in a while, one comes across a tale that warms the heart. Dr Samir Mansuri’s personal journey is one such tale. Born blind, his family saw him as a burden. Mansuri claims that when he was a child, his mother tried to drown him in a tub of boiling water and then blame it on his blindness, calling it an accident. He was saved by his uncle, but his family wished to get rid of him and thus, sent him to an NGO-run boarding school for the blind. Failing to receive family support, and still being called a curse, he left home and shifted to Hyderabad after high school. But, life was harsh to him even there.
To get by, he worked as a masseur at massage parlours and lived on railway platforms and slept under staircases. He saved money though and completed his graduation in Arts and also specialised in Ayurveda. Call it destiny or call it fluke, but a meeting with the 89-year-old Ayurvedic doctor, Shamshuddin, altered the course of his life forever. The old doctor imparted his knowledge to him and Mansuri obtained a medical practitioner’s license in Hyderabad in 1999.
Today, after a lot of research and development, he has come up with a range of eco-organic herbal beauty care products under the brand Ocean Miracle. To top it all, well-known names such as Vivek Oberoi, Subhash Ghai, Hrithik and Rakesh Roshan and other prominent businessmen and socialites consult him on beauty and alternative healing therapies. Dr Mansuri is also involved in social initiatives to support the blind and the disabled. What an inspirational life!
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