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"“I’ve always been someone who wanted to look at the bigger picture, working on the business rather than in it. HR initially allowed me to see how all the dots join together in order to make a change in the business.”"
"recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"
"More than anything it’s just about recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"
"Being able to cope when things are really bad also gives you some confidence, and having courage is an important part of being a leader. But it did take me a year until I fully found my footing as a CEO.”"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.