Saturday saw luminaries ranging from David Cameron to Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachan gather to unveil a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, marking 100 years since Gandhi left South Africa for India to begin his independence struggle.

Today it has emerged that Indian ITO provider Infosys contributed £250 000 to the metalwork figure, the highest donation so far. Earlier this year, the firm’s cofounder N R Narayana Murthy donated £200 000 for the statue, amongst a host of contributions from fellow Indian business leaders.

Continuing Gandhi’s philosophy of mutually beneficial Anglo-Indian relations, Infosys - headquartered in London - employ 3000 people in the Britain, earning almost $1 billion in revenue from business within the UK.

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