The first times I met Nishant was when I started working at IBM. Nishant and Robert were always playing pingpong in the lobby and I always walked by looking lost (I was lost most of the times). They invited me to dinner at Robert's house and I came. We became friends from there.
Through many years after, Nishant had always been a very dear friend, very much loved to me.
I still remember one of the last times we went to the gym together with Mike, Nishant was doing crunches and told me to poke his abs to convince me that he's almost getting a sixpack. +)
Love you Nish. and I mean it.