The legacy of Vajpayee
Vajpayee was a man of many contradictions. The velvet glove that sheathed the iron fist. The moderate face of the hardline Sangh Parivar. A man of reason, restraint and resolution, the former prime minister will go down in history as the great amalgamator of the nation
In the supercomputer that our brain really is, there are terabytes of memories -- a conglomeration of billions of experiences packed seemingly randomly into grey matter. Those that are unimportant lie forgotten in its deep recesses. But the ones that matter -- the day you proposed to your partner, a tremendous success or failure, the death of a leader you revered -- can be played back at will, in slow motion and in vivid detail. Ace athlete Milkha Singh once said that despite the lapse of over 50 years when he came fourth in the 400 metres event in the 1960 Rome Olympics, he could still run the
