BENGALURU: Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, widely regarded as the "Pitamah" of computer science education in India, passed away due to age-related ailments at his Tatanagar residence here on Saturday aged 92. The students he taught included Faqir Chand Kohli, the first CEO of TCS, and Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy. Instrumental in establishing India's first formal academic programme in computer science in 1965 at IIT Kanpur, Rajaraman laid the foundation for the nation's technological revolution. Born in 1933, Prof Rajaraman dedicated more than six decades to shaping India's computing landscape. "I was his student at IIT Kanpur in the late Sixties. He was a scholar and a gentleman. He and his very kind wife, Dharma, were like guardians for every student in the EE department at

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