From billionaire steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal to London cabbies, England teems with people from its former colony, India. They bagged nearly 60 per cent of British work visas last year and comprise the UK’s biggest overseas-born population.
One of them is Atal Malviya, who got a computer science degree from Gwalior, near Delhi, and went to England for an MBA after working for SAP Labs and Oracle. He became an entrepreneur during his MBA programme, and launched his big data text analysis start-up Odimax right afterwards.
He exited and decided to pool in funds from like-minded people in the UK