Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP

2013-06-14 Thread Indrajit Gupta
 - Original Message - From: Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013 8:03 AM Subject: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP This, by his brother, was also well done: http://arun.chitnis.com/2013/06/08/my-brother-atul-chitnis-1962

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP

2013-06-14 Thread Indrajit Gupta
Wasn't that the point?   bonobashi - Original Message - From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net To: mail=silklist@lists. hserus. net silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP It is amazing how a lot of people

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-14 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On Monday, June 3, 2013, Thaths wrote: First it was Raju Mathur and now this? The Open Source pioneers of India are slowly going away. Also Kenneth Gonsalves, less than a year ago. Kenneth was a severe critic of Atul and they rarely agreed on things, but when he passed Atul paid homage to

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Oh lord, when was this? Very sad.  --srs Original message From: Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com Date: 06/15/2013 12:55 AM (GMT+05:30) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis On Monday, June 3, 2013, Thaths wrote: First it was Raju Mathur

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP

2013-06-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date: 06/14/2013 11:51 PM (GMT+05:30) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP Wasn't that the point?   bonobashi - Original Message - From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net To: mail=silklist@lists. hserus. net silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc

[silk] Atul Chitnis RIP

2013-06-13 Thread Shoba Narayan
This, by his brother, was also well done: http://arun.chitnis.com/2013/06/08/my-brother-atul-chitnis-1962-2013/ Ingrid, thanks. This is such a lovely piece, about fathers and sons. Love these lines: Like it or not, sons live their adult lives in a manner which is directly or indirectly

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP

2013-06-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
:03 AM (GMT+05:30) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP This, by his brother, was also well done: http://arun.chitnis.com/2013/06/08/my-brother-atul-chitnis-1962-2013/ Ingrid, thanks. This is such a lovely piece, about fathers and sons.  Love these lines

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-09 Thread Badri Natarajan
On 9 Jun 2013, at 06:01, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: But there was an entirely different side to my relations with Atul as well. I got to know him when I started using a small editor that he and some friends had built, and which was floating around in shareware form. It was

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eh at least in Hyderabad the DoT run ISP (hd2.dot.net.in) had a menu option that took you straight to a korn shell --srs (iPad) On 09-Jun-2013, at 12:51, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote: On 9 Jun 2013, at 06:01, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: But there was an entirely

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-08 Thread Indrajit Gupta
.   bonobashi - Original Message - From: Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in To: silklist@lists.hserus.net silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, 9 June 2013 6:01 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis I was travelling the past five weeks, and got to hear only when my daughter called

[silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Biju Chacko
A lot of people on this list are acquainted with Atul Chitnis. Many of us got to know him in the Open Source scene in India in the late '90s and early '00s. I just heard that he lost his long battle with cancer earlier today. He was not universally liked but I guess even those that didn't like

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Jun 3, 2013 12:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: He was not universally liked but I guess even those that didn't like him would be saddened by the news. I agree, on both counts. RIP, Atul. It was too

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I agree. RIP In memory of an epic flamewar that started out as linux on the desktop, about a decade or more back --srs (htc one x) On 3 June 2013 9:29:30 AM Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: He was not

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
Will miss him. Rest in peace, Toolz. On Jun 3, 2013 1:49 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: I agree. RIP In memory of an epic flamewar that started out as linux on the desktop, about a decade or more back --srs (htc one x) On 3 June 2013 9:29:30 AM Udhay Shankar N

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Shrabonti Bagchi
I got to know him over the past two years... no conflicts, so I have very fond memories of him. He came across as a real gentleman to me, in the best sense of the word. It's remarkable how he handled his illness. I wish he didn't have to go so soon and had suffered less. I'll miss him. On Mon,

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Deepa Mohan
Not being in IT or in Linux or in FOSS, I too got to know him more indirectlythrough his staunch support of wildlife photography (and at least one wildlife photographer.) I got to know him better after he'd mellowed down. So my interaction with him was very pleasantI found a lot to be

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Biju Chacko
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: My heart goes out to his family...to lose him so early must be agony. The fact that the trolls start crawling out from whichever rocks they were hiding under at times like this surely doesn't help:

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
Don't feed the trolls... On Jun 3, 2013 6:22 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: My heart goes out to his family...to lose him so early must be agony. The fact that the trolls start crawling out from

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of people on this list are acquainted with Atul Chitnis. Many of us got to know him in the Open Source scene in India in the late '90s and early '00s. I just heard that he lost his long battle with cancer earlier

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread SS
On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 18:21 +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: The fact that the trolls start crawling out from whichever rocks they were hiding under at times like this surely doesn't help: https://twitter.com/geetanjalic/status/341522977860509697 What's a kathe? Would it be a corrupt lathe or

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Danese Cooper
I'd been chatting with Atul every few days throughout the many months of this his last battle, and I found him both indomitable and yet realistic about his chances. He was also incredibly humbled (not something I expected) by the financial and emotional support he was receiving. In our last

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Chetan Nagendra
Sad to hear that Atul is no more. Chetan On 03-Jun-2013, at 12:55 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of people on this list are acquainted with Atul Chitnis. Many of us got to know him in the Open Source scene in India in the late '90s and early '00s. I just heard that he

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
Whatever his personality, Atul was one of the guys who gave an impetus to the FOSS movement in India. For years, FOSS.IN was the event to attend. RIP Atul! Venky On Jun 3, 2013 9:17 PM, Chetan Nagendra che...@nagster.org wrote: Sad to hear that Atul is no more. Chetan On 03-Jun-2013, at