In 1998, M I Siddiqui, a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Bihar, left for a trip to Bombay with his 19-year-old cousin. The latter was heading to the city to enroll in a computer hardware course, so Siddiqui decided to accompany him. What was supposed to be a 15-day trip turned out to be a permanent shift to Mumbai, and Siddiqui’s life changed completely.
Narrating his journey to The Better India, Siddiqui says he had just completed his graduation and took the trip before beginning to seek job opportunities in his hometown. On the trip, he found himself intrigued by the course, and decided to enroll in it. “My relatives in Mumbai, who we were staying with, told me that a career in the field would boom, as computer technology was entering various sectors at the time,” he says.
From here, Siddiqui struggled his way to become a multi-millionaire in the bag manufacturing industry. He began his journey from the slums of Dharavi by borrowing Rs 5,000 from friends, and has since grown