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diff --git a/by-neeba.tex b/by-neeba.tex index f9f7107..25ce31f 100644 --- a/by-neeba.tex +++ b/by-neeba.tex @@ -1,34 +1,34 @@ \begin{english} \secstar{Memories of a Brother} -I still remember the incident when I met Jinesh for the first time. I was working as a lecturer in MES, during that time (in 2005). Once there was a tutorial and hands on session organized by the 'Open source community' of the college. Since I didn’t know anything about this, I went to attend the session. During the hands on, the tutor was telling the commands very fast, I was struggling. One of the volunteers of the program approached me, and patiently helped me to complete that hands on session. He impressed me a lot at that time itself. And the boy was one other than Jinesh. +I still remember the incident when I met Jinesh for the first time. I was working as a lecturer in MES, during that time (in 2005). Once, there was a tutorial and hands on session organized by the 'Open source community' of the college. Since I didn’t know anything about this, I went to attend the session. During the hands on, the tutor was telling the commands very fast and I struggled to keep up. One of the volunteers of the program approached me, and patiently helped me to complete that hands on session. He impressed me a lot at that instant itself. And the boy was none other than Jinesh himself. \begin{center} ---- \end{center} -After he joined in IIIT, Hyderabad, and started working in Malayalam OCR, (I was also working on the same project), we spent lots of time spent together. We had quiet a few journeys together to attend OCR workshops. His passion towards the language Malayalam and the development of Malayalam computing was quite a lot. +After he joined in IIIT, Hyderabad, and started working in Malayalam OCR, (I was also working on the same project), we spent a lot of time together. We had quiet a few journeys together to attend OCR workshops. His passion towards the language Malayalam and the development of Malayalam computing was remarkable. -The research areas, he worked on are mainly, +The research areas that he worked on are mainly: \begin{itemize} \item The automatic annotation of Malayalam books - from words to character to symbol level. -\item Identification of broken characters, +\item Identification of broken characters. \item Little bit of post-processing side of character recognition. \item and more. \end{itemize} \begin{center} ---- \end{center} -He had a clear idea about what he wants to be. That’s why he came and join in IIIT Hyderabad, even though he had a job offer in hand at that time. And he used to like the environment of the college a lot, which made him decide to convert to Ph.D. under Jawahar sir, which didn’t happen though. +He had a clear idea about what he wants to be. That’s why he came and joined in IIIT Hyderabad, even though he had a job offer in hand at that time. Moreover, he used to like the environment of the college a lot, which made him decide to convert to Ph.D. under Jawahar sir, which unfortunately, didn’t happen. \begin{center} ---- \end{center} -One interesting thing that I remember about Jinesh was his passion towards food. Even though the mess food in IIIT, is not that great, he used to pick up a good amount of food and eat it completely. He never used to waste any food saying that its not tasty. This is a habit that I really appreciate (since I cannot follow). +One interesting thing that I remember about Jinesh was his passion towards food. Even though the mess food in IIIT was not that great, he used to pick up a good amount of food and eat it completely. He never used to waste any food saying that its not tasty. This is one of his habits that I really admire (since I cannot follow). \begin{center} ---- \end{center} -But his sleeping hours had varied a lot, during his stay in IIIT. Since the college never had a strict time-table, some times, some times, he used to follow, US timings, and sometimes, UK timings, for days and months. which I believe now, as one of the reason to spoil his health. +However, his sleeping hours had varied a lot during his stay in IIIT. Since the college never had a strict time-table, sometimes, he used to follow US timings, and at other times, UK timings, for days and months, which I believe now, was one of the reasons that spoiled his health. \begin{center} ---- \end{center} -Before, the disease is identified, quite a long time, I was suffering with leg pain and all. When I met him last time in IIIT Hyderabad, he was showing me a blood test report. He asked me "See this particular value, this is varying a lot from what is needed. Looks like there is some problem". After that, when I called him after 2 weeks, he was in Vellore. +Before the disease was identified, for quite a long time, I was suffering from leg pain and all. When I met him last time in IIIT Hyderabad, he was showing me a blood test report. He told me, "See this particular value. This is varying a lot from what is needed. Looks like there is some problem." After that, when I called him after 2 weeks, he was in Vellore. Neeba Rajesh \end{english} |