On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]>wrote:
> The folks at www.opensource.com reached out to me and asked me if I could > write an obit for Atul Chitnis. I declined because I did not know Atul well > enough. Would anybody on this list be willing to write a short piece on > Atul? > > Kiran (Jace)'s piece is very well-written... http://www.nextbigwhat.com/atul-chitnis-obituary-297/ Anjana did not know him as well in the software field, but she shed tears for him and wrote this: http://shortindiangirl.livejournal.com/324315.html And I'm sure several other people would have written (or could write) equally well about him. Much of the humour in obituaries comes from people who write about people whom they didn't know well...such as the salutation, in the media, to "sitar maestro Lalgudi Jayaraman".
