Status update as of 2100 hrs IST on 5th Jan, 2007. I am delighted to announce that the total funds collected have now touched Rs. 156568
(All USD contributions converted to INR @ Rs. 44.20 and all EUR @ 57.9) Name Amount in Rs. Phani Kalyan 501 Bharath Venkatesan 4420 Sunil VG and Lakshmi Nair 30000 Raghavendra Angara 1105 Balaji Prasad 1000 Krishna Kanth 5790 Rakesh Gowda 1111 Sriram S. 1001 Anand Bharathan 4420 Gomtesh and Kangan Upadhye 1000 Triply Sridhar Rao 8840 Sridhar Raman 500 Roshan Ravi 1400 Shivakumar VA 1000 Varun Nair 500 Swapnil Mistry 1111 Suresh K. 500 Krishnan Raghavan 500 Shahnavas G 500 Prasanna Venkatesh 700 Vasanth TT 600 Dipak Ravishankar 1001 Gopal Anandan 601 Sirish Pavel 1000 Raghu BP 1001 Ganesh Govin 5001 Satish Gopalan 500 The following amounts (in INR) were contributed with an anonymity request 4420 5000 2210 1001 2500 1001 10000 2000 1001 10000 500 500 6630 10033 2250 9999 5000 4420 500 2000 The following people (not in any order of correlation to the above sums) made the above contributions. In the interests of transparency, I have to disclose names. However, anonymity with respect to the quantum of your contribution has been honoured. Gajenthar PT Anees M Ramesh Raghupathy Vikram Kumar Srinath Lalgudi Gopal Srinivasan Vaidyanathan R Jayaram Mohanraam Vinod Raju Radhakrishnan S Ganpy Nataraj Kalimuthu V Vijay Iyer Prashanna Rao Prabhu Krishnamurthy Anil and Raji Nair Ameesha P. Shahul Hameed Ravi S Dev Wasim Further, the following people have expressed their intention to contribute Prakash Nadaraja Balaji Rajagopal Karthik Venkataraman Durba Bhattacharjee Aditya Nataraja Sanket Joshi ICICI Bank's online transfer facility seems to have been down all day which has caused some misery to a few people in getting their contributions across. Please let me know asap if any one thinks there is a discrepancy anywhere. I intend to stop accepting contributions at 1000 IST on 6th January 2007. I hope there are some more pleasant surprises between now and then. Let us aim for 200000 Rs. Keep the contributions coming. Gopal.