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 conversation (last week) he was still trying to find some way to get Sloan-Kettering to take him on ... he never stopped dreaming big. I know a lot of Silksters had hard old rows with him, but as it was with Raj Mathur, who went before him, you'd have to admit that he was a man trying to do good things, however imperfectly. I will miss him. Danese On 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 today. > > He was not universally liked but I guess even those that didn't like him > would be saddened by the news. > > -- b
