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"What we need today as a nation is a new paradigm of growth—whenever and however it happens."
"This doesn’t mean we have to stop developing. Just we have to do it differently."
"We cannot afford to do what China and America did: have decades of 8 percent GDP growth, then do a cleanup act later."
"Now you don’t; everyone knows what it is. It’s right there for you to see."
"No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you."
"It didn’t much matter how well we understood the issue if we weren’t to take that both were common property resources to share and manage globally."
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.