My personal acquaintance with Atal Bihari Vajpayee was nil. The closest we ever came to a one-on-one contact was approximately 40 years ago, when he was the chief guest at a semi-formal dinner at the Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad. I was refilling the ice-buckets.
That was in the late 1970s when I was a callow teenager. I was happy to see him tucking into the excellent biryani with gusto after he had swallowed a couple of stiff ones. I knew little of politics but I dimly felt that anybody who enjoyed his meat and drink as much as Vajpayee did, couldn’t
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