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"When I was jogging this morning I realised that the weather is really humid and different from what I am used to (in Kenya). However, I am going to do my best."
"The wind was a bit strong and the hard surface made running somewhat tricky, but it was a good race and a nice preparation for the cross country season"
"I am happy to be the winner today because it was my first marathon and also my first time running in Singapore."
"But the Singapore weather was terrible for me. In Kenya it is cold and always rains, but when I arrived here, the heat and humidity started to have an effect on me. So my only goal was to complete the race. Today, I am very happy with how things had turned out in the end."
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.