Kavi (at his own house party) once mistook a new girlfriend of mine with my ex, and said “oh I met you before, when we were at blue lep last week!”. Of course this led to giggles from my friends, and a dirty look from her. Kavi said to me afterwards, “I’m sorry, but they looked the same”. Honestly, they couldn’t have looked any more different.

HA! Kavi Shekhar Pandey was a man of many giggles. But his monosyllabic burst of joy, “HA!”, rings loudly and fondly in my memory. Will miss it. Actually it was kind of annoying but now that he is Gandhi status, I will remember it fondly forever.

But the real deal isn’t Kavi’s laugh. It’s that he MADE us laugh. An avid comedy fan, and even amateur comedienne, Shekhar was a bright bright spark, a warm bear of a personality, he made you smile, have fun, enjoy yourself, no matter what the situation. He was a man of mirth, of intelligence, and of good cheer. And those are rare traits indeed.