It's always nostalgic to remember Rajive, his words of prank, his philosophical pearls of wisdom, and the books he would read and recommend to the Sixteener gang in the Book Club. How much proud he would have felt today seeing the Book Club grow from strength to strength in numbers and quality of our monthly sessions. Rajive will live in our hearts and his joyous memories and gratify our hearts. Glad to see Rajive's family grow and progress, just as he would have wanted. Our best wishes!

Rajive used to tell a few sardarji jokes at IIMC and enjoy laughing at them. One such joke was-

Rajive, even at IIM had a very scholarly look about him , yet there were times his sense of humour would have us in splits . His terminology for a worthless character or object won instant acclaim ! “Choods”, along with Rajive, shot to fame and became the favourite batch epithet for anything that was not quite up to the mark . The etymology of the word is derived from a Hindi word “Chewdaa ” , a popular but cheap breakfast dish in North India, often rustled up in a hurry when there is nothing else available to serve . Rajive anglicised and shortened it to an expressive and hard hitting “Choods”, a word with such a fantastic ring to it that one would actually enjoy using it at any deserving opportunity. “ Woh toh choods hai yaar” he would say with a definitive air of dismissal ! While we adopted the terminology with joy and triedour best to copy the tone in which it had to be spewed out , what one could not quite copy was Rajive’s naughty smile and expression when applying it .