Biographical

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Background

I come from Pune, the cultural capital of Maharashtra, a state on the western coast of India. Marathi is my mother tongue. My parents stay in Pune. My father, Ajay Deuskar, is Executive Director, Sales in Mahindra Sintered Products Limited. He completed his post graduation in Business Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. My mother, Sulabha Deuskar, is Head of the Department of Electronic Science, in Modern College. She has done a doctorate on Positron Annihilation. I am a single child. My grandmother stays with us. She is a great friend of mine. She completed here graduation in 1942, which was very rare at that time.
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I was born and brought up in Pune. I completed my primary education from Shishuvihar and my secondary education from Sou Vimalabai Garware Highschool. After completing my 10th, I joined Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce in 1991. I studied there for 5 years and obtained a bachelors degree in commence from Pune University in 1996.
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While doing my B.Com, I also joined the Chartered Accountancy course. It is a course conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. I joined Zaware’s Professional Academy, a coaching class for the course. I had a great time there and made some very good friends. I did my practical training for the course at Gadre and Bhide, Chartered Accountants, an tax and audit firm in Pune. I did reasonably well, in the course and ended up with a gold medal at an all India level.
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Then I joined Cummins India Limited as a Manager Accounts. I worked there for 18 months, worked on various things and enjoyed a lot. After tha I joined Indian Institute of Management Bangalore for post graduate program in management. During summer 2000, I did my internship at ICICI Limited. In Fall 2000, I attended The Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles as a part of international students exchange program. Now I am going to Stern School at New York University for a PhD program.
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Personality

As per the Keirsey temperament sorter, I am iSfJ, which means a protector. The actor Jimmy Stewart and Mother Teresa are examples of this temperament type.
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Interests

I like reading, watching movies and listening to songs. I enjoy reading Marathi books a lot. Pu La Deshpande is my favourite author. Among English I have enjoyed reading Bertrand Russell’s "Conquest of Happiness", Frederick Forsyth’s "The Devil’s Alternative", "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams etc. I have also read couple of books by P G Wodehouse. Check out the books section for reviews of some interesting books.
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Among movies, I like watching Hindi as well as English movies. I like science fiction, suspense, comedy and emotional movies. Check out my comments on movies. I like to listen to any Indian music ranging from classical to light to folk and covering, Marathi, Hindi and even Tamil and other Indian languages.
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I also like travelling. Sometimes I also venture into kitchen and try some non traditional dishes. Check out the sections, travelogues and recipies. I also enjoy spending time with friends and teaching.
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Friends

I have lots of friends. So I am classifying them based on various stages in my life.

School

Rujuta and I studied together in the school for 10 years, sitting on the same bench next to each other. Naturally, both the families also became very good friends. Rujuta finished her mechanical engineering and then went on to complete her MBA with finance. Currently she is working with HDFC Bank. Recently, she got married to Anish.
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College

In college we had a large group, initially with 7 core members - Shubhangi, Aasawari, Sadhana, Arati, Manasi, Vidya and I. Later on it went on to expand to include Papiya, Shemanti, Shefali and so on. We went for picnics, movies, and festivals and did all kinds of things. Especially, we always celebrated the new year eve together. It was a wonderful period. Currently, Aasawari, Manasi, Papiya, Shefali, Arati, Sadhana and Vidya are married. Manasi, Aasawari, Papiya and Shefali have gone far ahead and have cute kids. Shemanti is working with Tatas. Shemanti and I shared the first rank in our HSC exam. Mona is working with TCS and is in US on a project.

Shubhangi and I spent lot of time together. We have shared many happy and sad moments. Any time we felt like going out, we just took out our two wheelers and went on for shopping or movies. Shubhangi also completed her Chartered Accountancy with me. Currently, she is working with Philips.
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Chartered Accountancy

We were a big group of thick friends at Zaware’s Professional Academy (ZPA) as we sailed through the four years of the C.A. course from the Foundation to the Final. Annual functions, annual picnics and parties along with seminars and presentations were the essence of life at ZPA along with rigourous studies. Almost all of these friends are settled in jobs while some of them are pursuing higher education.

During the course, three years were spent during the internship at Gadre and Bhide. The groups of "articles" there had fine skills in income tax and could answer any subtle question on the said topic. This was backed rigourously by group discussions and attending seminars. Of course, none of them (Deo, Nilesh, Archana, Madhuchhanda, Yogesh, Anand, Chandrakant et al) were of serious type. We had a lot of fun through picnics, treats and gossiping.
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Cummins India Limited

My term of one and half year with Cummins India Limited brought me quite close to Mr Gurav, Anuja and Abhijit. We worked together, ate together and laughed together. Typically, Anuja and I would team up to pull Mr Gurav’s leg. Abhijit would join us occasionally. Sometimes however, we would join hands with Mr Gurav and pull Abhijit’s leg.

Other friends at Cummins include Ajit Khire(he was my assistant. We had great time working together)), Jitendra, Subramaniam, Rajendra, Chitnis.... Well the whole finance department and more.
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IIM Bangalore

Well, I will have to take 180 names here (400 actually including the junior batch). Just kidding! But definitely there are lots and lots of them. Let me just say that the two years at IIMB were the best in my life.
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Los Angeles

Los Angeles was quite interesting because I made friends from different countries - US, China, Sweden, Mexico, France, England. We had a gala time. But the best time was at NCU (Namrata's Cooking University) with dean Namrata alias Nammo and heads of departments Meghna and Juthika (Murgi and Chamko). I did a "course" on cooking Chhole and rice.
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