In a drab 1960s office block on the unfashionable Pinner Road in Harrow, North London, a dozen or so lab technicians in white coats are poring over clinical research for Intas Pharmaceuticals.

The $150 million company was set up more than 35 years ago in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad by Hashmukh Chudgar, but it spread its wings into the British market five years ago at the behest of Nimish, Binish and Urmish, the founder’s sons.

Their office is unremarkable, hidden away in a grey world of semidetached mock-Tudor homes, a parade of shops and careworn commuters trooping on and off the Metropolitan Line.

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