Personal Life
From a distinguished family (his three uncles, Professor K. Swaminathan, Dr. K. Venkataraman & Dr. K.S. Sanjivi have the unique distinction of being the only three brothers all to be awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India); his distinguished cousins include Venky Narayanamurti (Dean of his faculty at Harvard), Dr Dharma Kumar (née Venkataraman) the Economist,who whilst at Cambridge University, wrote an acclaimed thesis on the caste system, and Raghavan Iyer (Rhodes Scholar, President of the Oxford Union, Isis Idol, Oxford Fellow and Professor at the University of Santa Barbara). Madhav is the uncle of the academic, travel writer & novelist Pico Iyer and Ramachandra Guha (who writes on cricket, the environment and politics, and has also been awarded the Padma Bhushan). Madhav, who has always seen himself as the 'white sheep', so to speak, of the family, was formerly married to the British actress Jenny Seagrove. He was labelled by the judge presiding over their divorce case as her Svengali and accused him of "using his wife as his crutch". His frequent calls to her during their separation was "harrowing" to her then partner, Michael Winner. His current theatrical agents are Ken McReddie Associates, London.
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