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V.Mohamed Haji, V standing for Veettipparambil, was born  in the year 1932 in a village named Mampad which is in the Ernad Taluk of Malappuram district in Kerala ,which  is a small southern state of India, as the second son of Mammootty Haji and Kunhaisumma teacher. He lost his father young and so he and his elder brother Aboobaker left for Chennai then Known as Madras in the year 1945 to find a livelihood. They together started life working in a hotel and very soon they started a small shop of their own. By 1960 they started a restaurant by the name of "Hotel Abad" at a palace known as Mylapore in Chennai. In 1962 Mohamed Haji married Mulla Beevi the eldest daughter of VCK Thangal, a prominent person belonging to the Thangal family from the very same village, Mampad. She was hardly 15 years old at that time and was studying in the tenth standard. After marriage the couple moved to Chennai and had their first child, a boy on the 05th July 1965 and they named him Nasar. In 1966 Mohamed undertook the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca together with his mother and then on he came to be known as Mohamed Haji. Soon after this the brothers fell apart and Mohamed Haji came out of the business of "Hotel Abad" and by 1970 set up his own exclusive restaurant in the name and style of "Hotel Assembly" at Adyar ,near I.I.T. and C.L.R.I. in Chennai. He also purchased a house very near to the hotel and moved residence with his wife and children there in the year 1974. In the mean time the couple had their second son named Najeeb in 1968, a first daughter named Nalira in the year 1970, a third son named Nawab in the year 1971, a fourth son named Nawshad in the year 1972, a second daughter named Nawfil in the year 1976 and a fifth son named Sajjad in the year 1978. Mohamed Haji was actively involved in social service activities and was one of the founder persons of "The Malabar Muslim Association" having its headoffice at Kennet lane, Egmore, Chennai. He was actively associated with this till his death in Dec 1997, at which time he was the General Secretary of the Association. He was also actively involved in helping the Cancer patients coming down from Kerala for treatment at the Adyar Cancer Institute by taking them to the hospital and arranging accomodation for those accompanying the patients in the nearby vicinity and in certain instances arranging for their food. When Mohamed Haji died in December 1997 of cancer stomach at the age of sixty five his eldest son was a doctor, his second and third son were businessmen,his fourth son was an engineer and his youngest son was in college. Both his daughters were married, the elder one to an interior designer and the younger one to a doctor. Thus looking back on the life of V.Mohamed Haji one can say that he lived a fairly successful life and should have been a contented man.