UPDATE:: Surge 2009 results declared!

People are now looking for IIT Kanpur Surge 2008 results and are going to my old post about it. Well, another shortfall of neglecting SEO, the results have been put up in a pdf format and the link only says

NIT Students selected for SURGE 2008 in the first round

So, here are the details of the above document.

The students selected by the faculty for SURGE 2008 in the first round are:
Serial No. Dept. at IIT K Student Name         Institute
1     CE             A. Sri Krishna Rao   NIT, Warangal
2     CE             Amrendra             MNNIT, Allahabad
3     CE             Arpan Kusari         NIT, Trichy
4     CE             Hemant Kumar         NIT Warangal
5     CE             Indu Priyadarshini   NIT Patna
6     CE             Jyoti Chaubey        NIT, Silchar
7     CE             Jyoti Kumar          NIT, Silchar
8     CE             Mandira Pandey       NIT Trichy
9     CE             Manish Kumar Gupta   NIT Durgapur
10     CE             Neethu R. Nair       NIT Durgapur
11     CE             Preeti Bende         NIT Durgapur
12     CE             Pullagura Pavani     NIT, Trichy
13     CH             Jagdeep Singh        Dr. B.R. Ambedkar NIT, Jalandhar
14     CH             Navdeep Kaur         Dr. B.R. Ambedkar NIT, Jalandhar
15     CHE            Avanti Dahiwadkar    NITK Surathkal
16     CHE            Manoj Krishna KN     NITK Surathkal
17     CHE            Sravya Vallabhaneni  NIT Warangal
18     CHE            Vishwanath Karthik M NIT, Warangal
19     EE             Govind Kamath        NIT, Surathkal
20     EE             Saurabh Chandra      MNNIT, Allahabad
21     EE             Tapaswi Makarand     NITK Surathkal
22     EE             Udit Gupta           Dr. B.R. Ambedkar NIT, Jalandhar
23     ME             Gaurav Mishra        NIT, Durgapur
24     ME             Sria Majumder        VNIT, Nagpur
25     ME             Suchitra Rajendran   NIT Durgapur
26     ME             T. Durgalakshmi      NIT Trichy
The selected students will be intimated individually. They are to inform us
about their acceptance promptly by the date indicated in the letter sent to them.
S. Sundar Kumar Iyer
On behalf of the SURGE 2008 Committee
14th March, 2008

SDLC. Software Development Life Cycle.

Well you can read about the intricacies and the details at the above link. But here am gonna talk about the fastest SDLC that I ever saw and maybe was the only time I ll get to see., unless I decide to repeat it. Lolz

Well the pragyan CMS has been released on sorceforge.net

http://sf.net/projects/pragyan

And you can download the latest beta package at

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=220286

Well, now here is the fun part. We released a package, 5.2.3, and within minutes of release it was outdated coz we made some important changes, removed the old package and put in a new one. Well maybe it aint apt to call it SDLC but still 🙂

After a time you may find that “having” is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as “wanting”. It is not logical, but it is often true.

Except for the fact that there was no turbulence.. ( ya absence of the turbulence aint exactly nice for me at times), it was a nice day.. Though I bunked the entire morning session..

News for the day.

Ankit got internship at Lehman, Honkong..

Pragyan CMS project got approved and listed at sourceforge.net

So have to work upon it and start developing it further, real good and fast.

Help for Manju pours in from around the world

Follow up on the Manjunath Kalmani case… courtesy the Times Of India..

Read this and more at the epaper by Times of India..

And some more.. 🙂

Set For Reunion With Family After 8 Years

Risha Chitlangia | TNN

New Delhi: Manju is no longer abandoned. Vidyavathi, the 54-year-old mother of the software techie who lies paralyzed neck down at Safdarjung Hospital after being sent back from the US, is coming here to meet her boy, braving her frail health to travel from Koppal in Karnataka. The impending reunion after eight years will be a result of TOI’s front page report on Manjunath Kalmani on Saturday.
In fact, a lot more has happened. There has been a groundswell of worldwide support for Manju who went to the US on a H-1B visa, worked as a software engineer with weather.com, got laid off, and was involved in a crippling accident in May 2002. For five years, US doctors and support groups helped keep the quadriplegic in hospital.
But after his visa expired, he was transported back on March 5 and put in Safdarjung Hospital. Abandoned until Friday — even by his family, which appears to not have the means to look after the cripple who needs a respirator to breathe and 24-hour nursing for his every other need. ‘‘Where will the money come from?’’ his brother Sudhakar had despaired.
Well, money will hopefully not be such a big problem, given the volume of responses that have poured in. Reader after reader, dozens and scores of them, have written in to TOI offering help. And not just financial help — some of them volunteered to be at his bedside and alleviate his loneliness, while others sent in inspiring stories of other quadriplegics who despite their similar and crushing disabilities have not only managed to stay alive, but be productive too.
Like Rajinder Johar who has been paralyzed neck down and bedridden for the last 20 years. Writing about him, Kumud Mohan has said that Johar, along with his supportive family, founded the Family of Disabled which has so far helped get employment for 275 people with disabilities. She has said that with his mental skills intact, and his abilities with the computer — Manju has been communicating with the world on his blog by using the sip-n-puff mouth control device — the paralyzed techie had a brighter future.
Then there are letters of heartfelt empathy. Biplab, an Indian based in Houston, has written to give his own story. ‘‘I can relate to him. I am also a techie and I had a bad car accident three months ago.’’ He, too, had spinal injury — ‘‘but nothing compared to Manju’s’’ — and after being hospitalised for two months is now in rehab. ‘‘It’s time for positive action,’’ said Biplab.
Yes, it will require a lot of positive action for Manju’s rehabilitation. Doctors that TOI spoke to say that his best bet is a sophisticated wheelchair, which will have to be imported, and on which he can be strapped. A portable ventilator would help him with mobility. They spoke of many other sophisticated gadgets with which Manju can operate a computer — like sip-n-puff — and possibly carry out small things of life like ringing a bell or switching off the light.
All of this will require money. Manju will also require a lot of compassion and understanding. Who will provide it? A number of readers have written in to express their appreciation for the US and its people who, despite having no legal requirement to help him, kept him for five long years. ‘‘Which other country would support an immigrant for five years?’’ asked Atul. ‘‘Now it is the turn of the Indian government and its people to help Manju,’’ said Naveen.
With this outpouring of concern, Manju’s life could be set for yet another dramatic turn. One in which the despairing techie is touched with some hope. Perhaps the touch he would be seeking the most would be that of his mother’s on his forehead.
Want to aid Manjunath?
Numerous readers have written in to offer help for Manjunath while urging The Times of India to set up a fund for the helpless techie where they can send in money. In response to their request, the TOI has set up a fund for Manju. Readers who wish to send in contributions may write out a cheque in favour of ‘Times Foundation’. They should also send in a covering letter with ‘Manjunath’ written in the subject line. We will ensure that every rupee is used in Manju’s best interest.

THEN & NOW: Manjunath before his accident (above) and in hospital