Divi's Lab
It was serendipity that led to Divi choosing the pharmaceuticals path that eventually led to building Divi’s Labs. According to Forbes, Murali Divi would have followed his elder brothers’ footsteps and ended up as a chemist, had he not filled the form for an American visa at the right time in 1976.
For Divi, it was destiny that led him to the US. “Within a month or two I got a green card because there was a shortage of pharmacists in the US at that time. I was told to collect it at immigration. I went to the US with $7, that was all the foreign exchange one could get to travel abroad at that time,” he told Forbes in 2019.
He then worked hard — to earn a salary of $65,000 a year — at a range of top organisations in the US, including Trinity Chemical and Fike Chemical across Texas, New Jersey, and West Virginia. But along the way, he got homesick, and soon returned to his motherland.