A lifetime experience: Adilabad businessman sponsors flight travel for Adivasi workers to Tirupati

Those in his proximity must have scoffed at the rather strange vow that Indervelli businessman Aziz Hirani had committed himself to. But being someone who stands by his word he went on to fulfill the promise of sponsoring an air trip for his workers to a destination of their choice in case his daughter landed the job of a commercial pilot, which she did. Hirani, belonging to the local Ismaili Khoja community, did not bat an eyelid when the workers in his grocery shop comprising Adivasis, Dalits, and others, wanted to go on a pilgrimage to Tirupati. "I said so be it"