Shantanu Maheshwari

Shanu is a wonderful man. He is the joker, the lover, the cricketer, the fan (an ardent one of SRT and SRK) and what not. Above all, he does everything with a passion (atleast when he is not sleeping :) ). The best thing about him is his ability to think logically (when he is thinking of course). I would say I am yet to see a more logical person than him. There is, about Shanu, a zeal to do things and when he is in that mode of his, he can outperform almost everyone (one exception being his defeat at my hands in Trackmania :) ). Above all of these, I have found Shanu to be a great friend. Beneath that funny exterior of his lies a serious mind which he rarely uses ;), but when he does he can find solutions to all your problems (but not his). There are various other things about him that I have learnt over the years and he still amazes me when I expect him to crack a joke on a topic but instead he starts engaging himself in the discussion with such an intensity you have no option but to agree. This zeal, intensity or whatever you wish to call is the most interesting thing I find about him. He may lie dormant for however long time but when he starts doing things he is a force to reckon with.