Sharma : Do you mean to say that he appealed more to the head than to the heart?
Chavan : Yes, I would say that. He was besicall; an intellectual who never cared for emotions.
Sharma : Never played on emotions?
Chavan : Never, A sheer intelectual political personality.
Sharma : He was very tall.
Chavan : He was tall, looked scholarly and revolutionary. The impressions were very appealing for a younger man. This was my association with Roy, nothing more than that. I met him once or twice. Once we invited him to preside over a peasant conference or some disrict political conference in our district. I was one of the important workers there. And, that conference it self had started a controversy between our group and the established leadership. They practically broke that conference. They didn't like Roy's coming to our district to preside over the conference. They said that it was a challenge to the Gandhian leadership. We were not taking it in that sense.