Dollar drive As an unemployed youth, Hyder Jasani spent some really tough years on the footpaths of Anand, famous earlier for Amul and now for being India’s surrogacy hub. He scraped together a living by selling peanuts in the town, sleeping on its pavements and often going hungry. Then he migrated to the US, and in one of those rags-to-riches stories that always astound, became a motel tycoon.
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FreshInspirations: Motel tycoon Jasani used to sleep on pavements
Albert Jasani’s is a true saga of rags to riches. He began as a dish-washer in US, and now is a motel tycoon who recently built the royal albert’s palace – a place which hosts VVIPS from India, including prime minister Vajpayee when he was there. “I did all odd jobs. I was a dishwasher, taxi driver, factory worker, security guard, storekeeper and everything that comes under the parlance of labour work. I had no formal education but only a dream to go to America and do something big,” said Jasani. […]
Few know that Jasani… was born into the ‘khoja’ community. His real name is Hyder Jasani. “I don’t know much about religion. but I feel happy spending my money for noble causes,” he said. besides temples he has also helped build a ‘jamatkhana’ and equipped his village with modern-day facilities. Currently holding chair of Sardar Patel memorial foundation and vice-president’s post of the prestigious federation of Indian associations in US, Jasani has played a major role in influencing Indo-US relations and help bring in NRI funds for development-related projects in India. Among his close friends in US are mayors, senators and policy-makers. he is also on the VVIP NRI invitee list of the prime minister. Not forgetting his roots, Jasani has kept two photographs in his office in the Royal Albert’s palace. He says the two pictures are very dear to him and important landmarks in his life. In the first picture, little Jasani and his father Ismael are seen selling peanuts on a pavement in Anand. In the second picture, Jasani is shaking hands with Bill Clinton when he was US president.
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