Hi, my name is Vinit Bhansali. Welcome to my website.
If you are wondering: Yup, that really is my hand up there.

I am majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

At other times, a lifetime away, I belong to the great city of Bangalore, India where I was born and spent the first 19 years of my life.
I schooled at Bishop Cotton Boys' School (Cottons) and finished my 12th at Shree Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College.

I grew up in what most Indians would recognize as a middle-class locality, with tons of friends who I played cricket with. We played everywhere. On the streets. Behind the house. In the local playground. On the terrace. In hallways. In my room. On our neighbors driveway. Everywhere.

In parallel to my cricketing days, I got hooked onto computers very early on. Cottons got kids into mandatory computer science classes from 3rd standard onwards (3rd grade) and the mandatory part lasted till 8th standard, after which I choose Comp Sci (as it was known then) as an elective in ICSE and ISC.
Along the way, I picked up more from PC Quest and PC World and looking over the shoulders of seniors (Jim George, Chirayu and Kashyap) than I ever did in class. Even today, I consider that to be one of the best ways to fully master many aspects of computers. One of my pet peeves is balking at computer class when all I really want is computer lab.

Having lived away from my family since 1999, I have shed many of my pampered ways. No one to wake you up, no hot food ready to eat on the table. No freshly washed clothes on the shelves.
what I did receive was an excellent finishing touch to my parent's upbringing. The last few years rounded up my personality in more ways that one. I can now cook great Indian food (Pav-Bhaji, anyone?).
Also, my dad's standard question whenever I call him is ... "Did you eat yet? What did you cook for dinner?" (I mean, it IS international long-distance, dad!!!). That explains this pic of me ... just in case my father wanders here someday.

While on him, my father is my role-model, and if I can ever be even half as successful as him, that'll be 'nuff.
'Nuff said.

So here it is, a brief introduction ... now go on ... explore, find, react ...