Monday, February 12, 2007

Kalyan - Founder member of Thenegoodu passed away

Friends,

I am at loss of words to write about this humble guy Kalyan Raman Janakiraman who passed away Yesterday (Feb 11, 2007) at about 3:30 PM due to massive heart attack in Riyadh. He was just 32 and survived by Wife and a 4 yr daughter.

Kalyan, is my colleague at office (Samba Technology, Samba Financial Group) and we became close over these 9 years and used to share a lot of intellectual space. He was an expert in many platforms and a techie to the core. Apart from all these he was a very humble personality, ever smiling and one of the friendliest characters that one can come across.

He is aTamilian from Chennai and is the founder of the Original Tamil Blogs Portal - ThenKoodu.com which is more than 2 years old and has its own place in Tamil blogosphere. It has more than 2000+ members and 1300+ blogs listed.

He is the key inspiration and the key driving force behind Thenegoodu.com also. It is a great loss to the community here in Riyadh, personally to me as well as to Telugu Web Community.

Just to note that we had plans for Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali blog portals this year. These were his "dreams" and hope they will come true in the blogosphere by someone, sometime in future.

I end this mail here with prayers for his soul to rest at peace and strength to his family.

--Gowri Shankar

16 comments:

Winnie said...

sorry to hear about your friend. I wish you and his family the best.

Anonymous said...

May his soul rest in peace

vihaari

Sudhakar said...

This is a very bad news. May his soul rest in peace.

త్రివిక్రమ్ Trivikram said...

May his soul rest in peace.

స్వేచ్ఛా విహంగం said...

అతని ఆత్మ కు శాంతి కలగాలని ప్రార్ధిస్తూ ..

Unknown said...

sorry to hear that...
may his soul rest in peace.

சிறில் அலெக்ஸ் said...

Bloggers from Chennai have arranged for condolance messages to be collected to show the strength of the blogging and the internet community.

Please send your messages to sakaraalai@gmail.com.

Please announce this to fellow bloggers.

రానారె said...

Very depressing incident. May his family gather strength to move on, in this grief.

பாரதிய நவீன இளவரசன் said...

shocking news.... really taken aback.... what a wonderful young man he is. please update information my friend...

Venkatesh V

వెంకట రమణ said...

ఇంత చిన్నవయసులోనే అతనికి ఇలా జరుగడం చాలా బాధాకరం. ఆయన ఆత్మకు శాంతి కలుగాలని ప్రార్దిస్తున్నాను.

madhu said...

You guys are doing the real important work of promoting "computing in Indian languages". Hopefully you will not stop it!

జ్యోతి said...

may his soul rest in peace and god give his family courage to overcome this grief...

Dr.Pen said...

కళ్యాణ్ నీవు ఎక్కడున్నా...నీ తేనెగూడు(తెన్కూడు) లో నిత్యం జీవిస్తూనే ఉంటావు!నీవు లేని నీ వారి బాధను తీర్చలేకపోయినా...నీకు నా శ్రద్ధాంజలి!

Naga said...

కళ్యాణ్, నీ తేనెగూడు అద్భుతం. వెరీ గుడ్.

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