"Warmest wishes to Obaid. Special thanks for guiding me through personal difficulties. It was always a good feeling to have him stare at the tip of his shoes while he walked past you in the corridors & knowing all the time that he was thinking of your welfare..!! (I was introduced to `Molecular Biology' in my MBU-TIFR interview in the only question that OS asked me: "What EXACTLY do you understand at the molecular level, when you say Km is the [S] at 1/2 Vmax?".!! To a typical (overconfident?) biochemistry student from Baroda that was a googly which BS Chandrasekhar could have given his right hand for..!!" ---Shashikant Acharya (1985-92).