He was the manager of the Indian team on my initial India tours of New Zealand and England back in 1990. I remember he used to make us work hard, sweat it out on the ground and I used to enjoy doing that. He was strict and would pull us up when he felt he needed to do that. We understood why he was like that, because he genuinely wanted us to do well.
In the evenings, he would have fun with us, cracking jokes. We would spend a lot of time with him, listening to his cricketing stories. During those tours, he would take us to dinner at his friends' places. In those days, our daily allowance wasn't much, so he would take us along!
