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Read | Atal Bihari Vajpayee on national security: Daring leap, step by stepThose days, Vajpayee stayed in a house with other unmarried MPs. Read | Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Mumbai link: From BJP’s birth to his retirement“It was completed by lunchtime… Throughout the two-and-a-half hours, Vajpayee kept reciting poetry. (Express photo/Deepak Joshi)WHEN SADASHIV Sathe was working on live-sculpting a bust of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the hours seemed like a perfect concert, he says. “That was the last time I met my friend.”Read | Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The liberal Prime Minister, a key liberaliser of India’s economyThe cement bust of Vajpayee is one of many feathers in Sathe’s cap. The life-like bust of cement adorns a proud corner of the Sathe house in Kalyan, a far suburb of Mumbai..