At a glittering ceremony in India on December 8th 2010, Optometry graduate Mudassir Mustafa Alloo, was one of the recipients of the prestigious Dr TMA Pai Gold

Alloo, 22, of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, an Optometry graduate student of Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, India, was the only Muslim among 12 other gold medalists to receive their medals from the Indian President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil.