The unexpected passing away of the one and only Piyush Pandey has brought forth such an outpouring of tributes that the man himself would have reacted with a scoff and that uninhibited laugh saying, “ullu de pathe.” For someone, who was not what would be termed a public figure, the tributes tell you what a well-loved person he was. He loved his cricket and having studied in the same college with Arun Lal, our conversations would be about his dear friend’s cricket. He loved the story of Arun Lal and Kris Srikkanth, with the late Pakistani President General Zia-ul-Haq and would laugh heartily even at the umpteenth hearing of it. 

Piyush was loved by all