"I have known Obaid for about 50 years.Apart from our meeting often in TIFR, we used to travel many times in the same car from TIFR to the Bombay airport.This gave us opportunities to have extended conversations on various topics .Thanks to these interactions, I could appreciate his vast culture. Mathematicians are reputed to be absent minded,but it seemed to be that he was absent minded too or at least appeared to be so.On one occasion,he discovered while checking in at the Bombay airport that he did not have the ticket for the flight, since he had brought with him a used ticket. However,using his charm, he persuaded the airlines staff to let him board the plane! After he moved to Bangalore ,I did not have much contact with him.I met him once in Trieste when he was a director of a biology workshop and I remember that we had useful conversations regarding the organisation of workshops at the ICTP. Our families,especially our daughters, have been quite close. I wish Obaid all the best in the years to come." --M. S. Narsimhan.