Dr. Laxman Mohanty, one of the founder of Silicon, Rest In Peace
Laxman Mohanty, 43, one of the co-founder of Silicon Institute of Technology passed away on August 11th 2008 in Ahmedabad.
I met Laxman in 1987 just after I finished my B.Tech. He and his BITS Pilani colleagues (Sanjeev, GP and Suchitra) had a year or two back founded the first IT Company in Orissa, ORICOM.
Since then I have been friends with him. He and some of his colleagues first founded the precursor of Silicon, which only had MCA. They then expanded it to have B.Tech program and now Silicon is perhaps the best private engineering college of Orissa.
Recently Laxman was after a bigger vision of establishing good schools. The first of these schools, Future Bhubaneswar, is about to start. A preschool version of it, Future Feets, is up and running for a couple of years.
I am extremely saddened by this loss and may be when I feel better, will come back to this and add some more thoughts about him.
(Following are two pictures I took of Laxman with my sister and brother-in-law in December 2006; the last time I met him was a couple of days after that.)
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