By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Mysore
It was my good fortune to have met Vajpayee twice in New Delhi. He had not yet become the Prime Minister but was an MP. My first meeting with him was formal and not important. The second meeting was important. Swaraj Prakash Gupta, who founded the Indian History and Culture Society, was its Chairman also. I was entrusted with the responsibility of looking into the affairs of the Society in South India. This Society had arranged a conference in which Atalji, P.C. Chandar, Dr. B.N. Puri, Awadh Kishore Narayan and I took part.
