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Students gathered at the sprawling campus and lit candles in memory of young Seshadri Rao. The National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK) was grief-struck following the brutal
murder of one of its alumnus, K Seshadri Rao, an MBA student of Boston University. Students gathered at the sprawling campus and lit candles in memory of young Rao. "He was an active
engineering student. He had formed his own gaming group. He spearheaded the formation of a group that created special software for gamers when he was in third year,” said Uday Kumar
Yaragatti, head of the department of Electronics and Electrical at NITK. “Rao was a hardworking student and was very enterprising. After he passed out of NITK, he left for Orissa and joined
a private engineering college affiliated to Cuttack University. There, he created an infrastructure for computer and IT department in two years before he left for Boston to do his in
postgraduation in business management at Boston University,” he said. “He was an activist of computer society of India (CSI) and used to hold many CSI programmes in the campus. I was amazed
at the organising capacity and enterprising talents of this boy right from the first year. He scored a distinction. His energies were channelised to different activities that made him a
multi-faceted personality,” said Prof Lakshman Nandagudi, Dean, NITK.
