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"Better life for rural women."
"Everything is achievable if you put your mind to it, no matter how difficult it appears at first."
"The most important thing is where your passion lies and what your motivation is."
"qualities a young person needs, is to believe in self, develop entrepreneurial skills and learn to be assertive."
"As a young person who wants to go into development work you must not be afraid of taking risk, but calculated risk not suicidal ones."
"You don’t see problems, you see challenges, because with challenges you are ready to work around it."
"when you look at things as problems it means that nothing can be done about a situation."
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.