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"I’m sure you have learnt already that things are more enjoyable and absorbing if you are interested. Curiosity can power you to learn new things, develop new skills and make new connections. When making career choices, pick things that really interest you and will keep you curious, and you will be more successful."
"Through your degree, you have honed your curiosity and problem solving skills. From here, you will have many opportunities to push the boundaries of what engineers think is possible today and solve the problems of tomorrow. Stay curious."
"When it’s behind you, it’s behind you” and the mindset is crucial to looking forward and winning the next time."
"We need people like you with a passion for making things work, who embrace failure as a chance to learn and who are not afraid to tackle challenges head on. You are already great role models for aspiring engineers at school in the area and beyond."
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.