A thorough gentleman, cool minded and serious looking soil scientist from Pantnagar, he was meticulous in every thing he did-from keeping nice lovely notes to the good upkeep of himself and his room. The demand for his class notes would assume interdormitory proportions as exams drew nearer. Also called as Nawab Saheb because of his ''Lakhnavi" Kurta, his exhibition patriotism was second only to ManojKumar's. With a tremendous passion for carroms in which his 'diving' follow-thru'- action after taking a strike was a treat to watch, he chased the "queen' on and off the carrom board but never succeeded in following up. In appreciation of his excellence in accounting he was unanimously chosen as Purchase Manager (newspaper) of the floor.