An Introduction

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

Reciting a self introduction to others is an exercise that has pestered me all my life. Everytime a new teacher joined my class, the first thing that i was forcefully made to do is: introduce myself to the new teacher. The frequency of this exercise multiplied when I joined my higher studies. I was asked to give an introduction to almost every professor on the campus, with very few exceptions who believed that the whole exerceise was a sheer waste of time since they very well realized that it is absolutely impossible for them to remember even the name of the students, let alone the bio data that you recite to them. Everytime a company visited our campus for recruitment, this is one question all the interviewee had to answer to the interview panels: “Tell me something about yourself?" And this exercise continues even today in my corporate life. So, let me do that task here as well.

I come from a middle class family in Poochatty, a village in the cultural capital of Kerala (Trichur). Born as the eldest son of my parents, P.K Babu and Geetha Babu, I lived a major portion of my life in Thrissur.

I went for schooling in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir in Thrissur. That is where I spent 14 long years of my academic life. After completing my schooling in 2002, I joined Sri Kerala Varma College in Thrissur to do my Bachelors in Commerce. I decided to pursue my higher studies in management after completing the graduation in 2005. Given the fact that there were not many institutions in Kerala that offered quality education in the field of management at that time, I was forced to move out of the state and join SDM-Institute for Management Development in Mysore to do my Masters in Business Administration.

I graduated from SDM-IMD in 2007 and joined as an IT Consultant in one of India’s leading IT services companies, which still is my employer.

The introduction that I jotted above is a template that I usually apply in those situations were I have to give an introduction about myself. Hope my blogs can give a better portrait about me than what my introduction template gave. These blogs are my effort to wear the mask that let me be what I am. (If I am not already what I am)