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SHAKTI SINHA first got to know Vajpayee in 1980, and worked with him very closely for three and a half years in
the 1990s, as secretary to the leader of the Opposition (1996-97) and as his private secretary (1998-99). He was also the director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. He is a distinguished fellow at the India Foundation and is currently serving as the honorary director of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Policy Research and International Studies, MS University, Vadodara.