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"Complexity is one of the great evils,good men seek to slay it whenever they can."
"Honesty and popularity rarely coexist in the same space. Once in a blue moon, when what people want to hear is actually true, it happens."
"After we got the Internet, the first online service I wanted to build was a Nigerian Paypal. I held 3 or 4 related domains for a while, but failed to renew them, as I didn't have what it'd take. This was years before I thought about starting Nairaland."
"I learnt that one could make money by starting a popular website and placing adverts on it, but I couldn’t make my blog popular enough to"
"I always tell job seekers to create their own jobs, because nobody owes them a job."
"Look for a painful problem that others are facing, and then devise a way to make people pay you for the solution. Look for problems that don’t require much capital to solve."
"In a developing country like Nigeria, there are so many problems waiting to be solved. One man’s problem is another man’s profit! Competition is often weak which means you’ll make a lot of money. So what are you waiting for?"
"I used to be active on various discussion forums online, so I recognised their value. But the Nigerian forums available at the time were dominated by Nigerians abroad. They focused on topics like US politics and inter-racial relations."
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.