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"“I want to highlight what I did here, and will definitely share this with everyone when I go to Japan. This is actually a flex, for the ambassador to be the first to taste the tea that I made,”"
"“And also to the ambassador, just like what he told me earlier, is to really enjoy my time in Japan when I go there. Because that is something that I also want to do, not just to be there for the competition, but to enjoy every aspect of the Japanese culture,”"
"“As a Filipino, we have strong ties with the Japanese. And I want to bring that friendship that we have with Japan when I go there, and to introduce the similarities of our culture to the other candidates, to share with them how beautiful our friendship is with Japan,”"
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.