The PR Office covers university functions. In one such function tea was served after the inauguration talks in the form of tea bags in paper cups. Zeeshan Ahmed Sahab, one of the successors of Miyan-so to say, remarked:
"Dr Sahab it looks like tea of Number Three."
Dr Sahab completely missed the import.
"Miyan", added Zeeshan Sahab.
"Oh, yes!"
It clicked then.
Miyan was parked in room number three of Old Boys Lodge and will treat his guests and visitors with pouch tea.
"O Boy! Recognize this person thoroughly. Whenever he comes take a tea bag from here, do not bring your tea", Miyan said once to the boy Waseem who brings tea from his father Shafi's canteen in the Lodge. Of course this could have been said in privacy but Miyan was no diplomat for sure. And this is the boy whom Miyan wanted educated. That was Miyan's specialty but the boy failed Miyan. Miyan had the philosophy that whoever came to Aligarh did not leave without education. And for Miyan it was never disproved in spite of any number of contrary examples. Miyan was an Aligarian.
Then there are other tea stories too. He'll many times tell about a shop in the Parliament complex where you'll get even that variety of tea that will cost you a thousand bucks for a mere hundred grams.
And when K.Kuriakose's daughter went to Darjeeling on tour of Abdullah College girls then she did not forget Miyan there too. He received his tea packet soon after her arrival.
Miyan did not marry but he for sure lived among loving people.