With Vajpayee, curtains for an era that was gentler, but more democratic

Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, one of India's most beloved leaders and most brilliant orators, died today; and with him ended an age of politics that had Hindu majority assertion as its core

Was he a private person? Yes, but you would have never known it, judging by the way he lived his life. Was he a public person? Not always: His political moves, especially against his adversaries, were so indirect and secret, and at the same time so brutal, that they rarely recovered.
 
The 10th prime minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, one of India’s most beloved leaders and most brilliant orators, died today. And, with him ended an era of politics that had Hindu majority assertion as its core.
 
Born on December 25, 1924, to Krishna Bihari Vajpayee and