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"Absolutely. When you enjoy that competitive spirit, you end up taking it with you wherever you go. In my school days I loved basketball, but when I had kids I couldn’t go to practice, but I started to get that hunger for adrenalin again."
"Back in the late ‘90s, we were quite instrumental in the wool handling game, always striving to be better, and you start to realise how much the sporting environment can impact on your life. The physical and mental sharpness, taking care of the engine room – they’re very transferrable skills that I definitely took into my business career."
"Just be yourself, and trust yourself. I have often said, ‘Think with your head, feel with your heart and trust your puku, your gut’. You see bright young things out of university who have the theory and a plan all set, but it can be difficult if you don’t have empathy, and you can’t feel with your heart. I also tell her ‘make sure you know where your weaknesses are, and make sure you have a plan around them’."
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.