Wednesday, January 10, 2018

India’s Internet Guru And Author Of 80 Books, Vijay Mukhi Passes Away

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India’s Internet Guru And Author Of 80 Books, Vijay Mukhi Passes Away

Vijay Mukhi, who famously known as India’s Internet Guru, breathed his last at his home in Mumbai on Tuesday night, after suffering a heart attack. His last rites will reportedly be held at the Shivaji Park crematorium at Dadar today.

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Vijay was an engineer from Mumbai’s VJTI and began his own computer training institute Vijay Mukhi’s Computer Institute in 1989 when computers were still nascent in the country with the aim to teach students the latest technologies.

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For a very long period, Vijay focused on his courses on C-Windows programming, Ole, MFC classes, Powerbuilder-Visual Basic at his training institute. Then, with the advent of the Internet and Java, he modified the course structure to include networking technologies, which covered the bits and bytes of the internet protocols.

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Along with training, Mukhi started writing his own books. He wrote over 80 technical books in his lifetime. He has also written books on various e-security topics.

He served as the President of a body called FIST, Foundation of Information Security and Technology, which aims at finding resolutions to all security related problems and updating various sections of the society on cyber crime and cyber safety.

May his soul rest in peace!

Published by Harmisha Chauhan on 10 Jan 2018

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