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"I combine academics and entrepreneurship… Don’t spend your capital. Look for a need in the society. Try to fill the need. And that’s what I’ve done for business all my life."
"At the time I was doing my bakery, at the time I was printing, at the time I was trading, I was also consulting for the World Bank. I was consulting for the UN. So, none of those things suffered."
"We felt that we are not just an oil and gas company. But rather, we are an energy company. We are an integrated energy company."
"this terminal [will] open up for those stranded fields that will easily increase the production of the country by 200,000, 300,000 barrels per day."
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.