[Introduction]: Abhishek Deshpande

I am Abhishek from basically many places. I was born in MP, lived in Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Bengal and Karnataka. I have been working for the past two years with MindTree, Bangalore as a regular software fellow, although with lots of other things I did at MindTree.

Prior to that I did my BTech in ICT from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, 4 years there were quite enjoyable and I hope it will be the same at SPJain.

I will be joining Marketing specialisation, opted for it as I thought it would suit me better than anything else, would be interested to explore avenues of Rural Marketing, Retail, Customer Relationship Management, PR and Branding.

My interests include blogging(read me at Switching Spaces) , cooking, cricket, TT, talking, food, reading, traveling and Cinema in no particular order, although food and talking does take a bit of preference :-).

I have a long list of nicknames which over the period of time have become so common in use that I have been quite oblivious to my real name Abhishek. Options available with you guys include,

• Pattu- schooltime nickname with a long history behind it.
• Desi- College time nickname, most commonly used, maybe sounds a bit you-know-what at times.
• Desh- a sophisticated version of the above option
• Abhi- nice and clean, ghar ka nickname :)
• Daisy- a distortion of Desi, created by an Alcholated friend :) and so on...

Better give me a new one at SPJain... :)

Also looking forward to Hostel life again, and of course Mumbai in a big way, lets see what happens when we actually reach there.