Who are these ‘Madrasis’ and ‘Diva’ on Infosys’ Board?

A whistleblower group’s letter to the Infosys Board and the US Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that CEO Salil Parekh told members of the group that it was not necessary to inform board members DN Prahalad, D Sundaram and Biocon CMD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw about issues concerning large deals. “The CEO told us,‘no one in the board understands these things. They are happy as long as share price is up. These two Madrasis (Sundaram and Prahlad) and Diva (Kiran) make silly points. You just nod and ignore them.’ We have voice recordings of this.”