ASKI “DE CASTA”’s Website

Me at Sis’s Marriage (Corporate Guru .. huh… looks cud be deceptive)

Some Links

• My First Blogpage
• My Second Blogpage
• My Foto Album on Shuterfly
• My Sis’s Marriage Album
• Daddy’s Blogs
• Osho’s Blogs
• Suku’s Blogs
• Mansi’s Blogs
• Gmail is Gr8
• Orkut Rocks
• Pagalguy – for CAT aspirants
• Socretop – for GMAT aspirants
• Useful Downloads
• My CV
• Wu’s Puzzle site - Ultimate
• Free Music

About this Webpage

This is my first attempt at creating a webpage, I am using a MS Word for this purpose and hence this version is not too jazzy, you need to wait for version 2.0 which I promise would be an improvement after I learn Java/HTML coding from my “immortal coder friends” (I don’t even know what to learn, so u can guess ….hehehe) who are serving the “IT march of India” (!!). This webpage describes the various stages of my life and has a collection of some useful links. You can find my thoughts and blogs (here). Recently After my first blogpage received a phenomenal response (!!) I made another blogpage to cater to such huge traffic (!!), which can be found here. I had made a website for myself but then I found out that it was a free only for the initial period of one month, In case you are an early bird you can still find it active here.

Different Stages of My life

Childhood Days - I was born and brought up in a typical middle class family in a small town called Ranchi which is now the capital of the newly formed state of Jharkhand in the republic of India. My childhood days were quite peaceful and I attended school at DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali, which was a stone throws distance from my house. I must comment the schooling was the best which was available in the state but then I was not too interested in studies (as is the case today also!!).

Life at College - After undergoing the schooling I went to Chennai for pursuing higher education. I hold a Master of Technology in Infrastructure Management and a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras). I was an average student in my college days and was quite active in sports events. I had represented IIT-Madras at three consecutive Inter-IIT Sports Events (at Kanpur – 2000, Kharagpur – 2001 & Delhi – 2002) in the soccer event. I played at left wing back position in a 4-4-2 formation. I have won several medals while representing my hostel (Saraswathi Hostel) in inter-hostel events at IIT-Madras.

I was quite active in the departmental activities and was the coordinator for paper presentation and other events in the departmental fest called CEAFEST. I had won two consecutive the All-India Technical Quiz competition at CEAFEST – 2000 & 2001. I had won the first prize for providing a innovative and efficient design for a multi-storeyed steel car park in an All India design competition organized by Institute of Steel Design and Growth in India. (INSDAG). (sounds boastful is it ? cant help it in anyways … hehehe!!)

During the five years I spent at IIT-Madras I stayed at Saraswathi hostel, hostel life was the best part of the college life. I made several friends there and shared some wonderful moments during the period of five years (which continues till date). We were the most rowdiest group that IIT-Madras and our hostel had ever seen. Our juniors were quite scared of entering the 5^th wing and even our batch mates & seniors were afraid to come to our wing. We have founded a group whose homepage could be found here. The most fond memories of the my stay at hostel are the Saturday morning rawa dosas, bogs without water, quadrangle footer and 5^th wing corridors.

Professional Career – I started my career as a Management Trainee at IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation (IL&FSIDC). The decision to join IL&FSIDC was a tough one considering that an IT-MNC had offered me a better package at campus. However, going by my gut feeling I plunged into the world of infrastructure finance. My job responsibility at IL&FSIDC were project development, project structuring, procurement documentation, providing guidance & support to technical consultants and client engagement. I got a lot of freedom to work there as I was working part of the smallest team that can be assembled ever(!!). I had risen to the designation of Senior Office at IL&FSIDC and it was a good first experience of work. However, after completing two years with IL&FSIDC I decided to move on to I-banking and am presently working as an Associate at SBI Capital Markets Ltd. (SBICAP). I am looking at investment banking activities for transportation, ports and airports verticals.

I encourage you to mail me here in case you wish to contact me regarding any further information, clarifications or anything else which you wish to know. I try to reply back to mails in a day or two provided I have got a descent internet connection.

My Family

My father retired as DGM from MECON Ltd. and my mother is a home-maker. I have great respect for my father, from whom I derive all my values and other characters traits. He has taught me the importance of honesty, integrity and values. He me realize the importance of education in professional career. My mother is wonderful cook and cooks all sorts of delicacies for me. As a typical mother she is very fond of me.

I have a sister who is married and is presently employed with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as a Business Consultant. My brother in law is heading the sales function in a start-up called Paladion Networks (Paladion). Both of them are presently located at Mumbai and we have a wonderful time over weekends (of course at their place!! hehehe).

We have a typical closely-knit Indian family, which places great value to culture. It has taught me respect elders and shower love to youngers. I am proud of all my family members, cousins, uncles and aunts.

My Interests

My professional interests include investment and corporate finance, project finance, public-private partnerships, financial modeling, business strategy, organizational behavior and stochastic risk modeling. I am a number-crunching nerd who is perceived to be good at modeling and analysis (of course by others!). And that is the way I earn by bread (in case you want to know more about me please contact me here). I used to be a workaholic till sometime back but have realized the importance of leading a balance life lately.

On personal front I am interested in philosophy, sharing experience of life, understanding society and organizational behavior, values and culture. I share my thoughts thru my blogs which could be accessed here and here. Off late I am aspiring to achieve “thought leadership” and which has resulted in me becoming a ardent debater.

You can reach me at

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Address of Communication: Associate, PA&SF Group, SBI Capital Markets Ltd., 202 – Maker Towers – ‘E’, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai – 400 005