G.G. Salem — senior member of the Jewish community in Mattancherry and son of the illustrious freedom fighter and community reformer Abraham Barak Salem, widely known as ‘Jewish Gandhi’ — died, aged 89, on Tuesday. His spouse Reema had predeceased him.
G. G. Salem was one of the six members of the shrunken Jewish community in Mattancherry and its senior most male member. Troubled by age-related ailments, he was admitted to a private hospital at Panayapilly on Monday. The end came around 6.45 a.m. on Tuesday. The body is being kept at a morgue.
Funeral-
The funeral will take place after the arrival of his children settled in Canada. Salem last worked as principal of the Government Polytechnic at Kalamassery. He had also worked as professor of mechanical engineering at Govt Engineering College, Thrissur.
The device called iPost or Intelligent Electric Post was developed by Shyam Pradeep of Government Engineering College, Thrissur. He won a cash prize of Rs 50,000.
The contest was held as part of the FOSS Young Professional Meet. The meet was organised by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) here the other day.
iPost has an in-built facility to control the power line with a simple circuit fixed on the safety gloves of the worker. iPost can also be used by KSEB is the functioning of streetlights. It informs KSEB office whenever a streetlight malfunctions and this could help in rectifying the defective streetlights quickly.
The first runner-up prize of Rs 25,000 each was shared by two teams - National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Calicut, for their project ‘Citywide Water Quality Monitoring’ and TCS team which developed the product ‘iBot’, a social cognitive robot.