This DASA from Nakuru, Kenya was temporarily better known as Mukesh, cause of his buddy-pally relationship with his dad. They are so close that Mukesh never let Ab feel the loss of a love consultant. It is well known that he is Ab's inspiration to go on in all his affairs. Ab is characterized by his 'silent' and his 'aged' look. While

he stood at the PA on his first day in hostel, flanked by 3 other male family members, his roommate had a tough time figuring out which one of them was to be his roomie! Probably why nobody in his freshie wing believed he was anything under 22. AB's Shut-Up syndrome is the most 'stunning' of all his traits, i.e. Under

special circumstances, Ab just shuts up.

Theorem1: Ab keeps quiet when more that 3 people are in the room.

Revised Theorem 1: Ab keep quiet when more that one girl is in the vicinity.

Re-Revised Theorem 1: Ab is just too cool to talk.

Ah, but when AB DOES talk, the fun begins. He is infamous for his dirty jokes. Well, if you understand them, they'll have you laughing for ages. And he's known for his gujju-african dialogues - There is a bitch (beach) just

outside his house in Kenya, we hear. He'd go there every wick (week). In school he lived in the dome (dorm). Now over time and in the presence of his talkative roommate, Ab learnt the ways of life. He took one step too many and tried to become humorous. Unfortunately, that didn't quite work out.

A classic Ab joke. Sitting in the second row of the class, Ab was quietly gathering all the n-degree differential equations written on the board. The Prof, takes a minute and clarifies the problem with a real world example. He says, imagine a lizard was here (pointing to the roof) and wanted to come down to this wall (pointing at some wall), now what would be the shortest path for the lizard to take? Prof. looking at the class earnestly, HOPING for an answer. Ab , as usual, took up the challenge, and said ' Sir wont the lizard just FLY from here to there' Prof looking a little lost. Ab clarifies..' Sir , the lizard is in the AERO department'. The look on the Prof's face indicated that he'd probably hadn't heard such a thing in his 20 odd years as a Prof and 50 odd years as a human being.

Ab has been the 'Last Samurai' for his never ending fighting spirit, academically of-course. He fought for 10 days to attain a 10-day extension for his BTP. Ab's presentation techniques should be introduced to freshies as part of their orientation and Ab's seminar presentation, should go down in the history books of IIT. Like for most of us, it was a last minute copy-paste struggle. But in this case, our man had little, actually, had NO clue what he was pasting. Come the day of the presentation, while the others present, Ab sits besides the DR1 and tries to make

some sense of what he has submitted as a report. He jots all the important key words for each slide on a piece of paper. Then confidently strolls up to present, in his jeans and untucked shirt(another trademark) and begins. What struck everyone there was his inability to complete a sentence without "and all that" Obviously by the end of the presentation, his poor examiner is lost. He didn't understand a thing, but Ab's confidence has him doubting himself. So he tries his luck and quizzes Ab on some diagram. Ab, once again, confidently, asks for a marker, walks to the white board, chalks out 4 tiny squares and looks at the Prof as though to say ' this should clear things up'. By now the examiner has realized that Ab is on a level way higher than his own and any attempt to reach it is futile. No more questions. Ab cracks. Juniors LEARN - btp and seminar presentations are ALL about attitude.

Now lets move to the spicy part of Ab's life. His love life. Women are attracted to this smooth talking machine like a moth to a flame. Its also to be noted that Ab's time duration in a relationship has been exponentially decreasing, before he came to IIT that is. His first one , was a painful 2 years, then came a fling of 13 days and

then came (we don't know what to call it) something lasting a few hours(6-7 we think)!!

Let us demonstrate his smooth-talking quick-wit with one-of- his-many women.

Setting: Kenyan forest. Night time. Ab, sitting in the back of a truck, with his

crush (AK) lying on his lap. The moon shines in the night sky, creating a romantic,

NO, electric atmosphere.

AK: Wow, the moon looks so beautiful tonight.

AB: nods in approval.

Suddenly dark clouds cover the moon.

AK: awww..i can't see the moon anymore.

Ab, Staring into her eyes, gazing at her face

AB: I can

SCORE!! AK had no idea what hit her. She was drawn to him like a magnet.

Now, coming to his college life. Ab was known to chase anything in a skirt. Ironically his current hottie A SAUNA has probably never worn one. Ab was smitten by her the very first time he laid eyes on her .He made that very clear to all his potential competitors (which were many). They, obviously smart enough to realize a lost battle, backed off. And 6 months later, *BAM*, Ab made his move; once again the woman had no clue what hit her.

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Ab has many many more eccentricities, like his 6-figure bank balance, his anti-India demonstrations at the TV room, his advice to buy booze from wine shops rather than restaurants and so on. And though we give him a tough time, we love him very much. He is one of the few truly simple people around and genuine sportsman. He

has a job offer waiting for him back home with Kenya Airways and we wish him the very best of luck and hope he enjoyed his little stint in India.