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April 10, 2026
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""Consistency in My Innings Won’t Win Matches"."
""You're a captain when you're fielding, not when you're batting"."
"Sanju Samson is not just the best wicketkeeper batsmen in India but the best young batsman in India."
"I am surprised that he is not playing all forms of cricket for India."
"Sanju Samson doesn't need to be next anyone. He will be the Sanju Samson of Indian cricket."
"He’s a talented player. He’s always done well in the IPL. He’s got a good, simple game. He’s strong at the crease and balanced too."
"Sanju was fearless at the top of the order. He tried to take the momentum away, he should back himself."
"What a player Samson is if he continues to play like this and India don’t have a room for him in the team, then India must be the greatest team in history."
"The kind of batting that he has got when he is on song, he just takes your breath away."
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.