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"Euclid himself is an elusive figure. We know nothing of him from contemporary references … Euclid’s Elements, which is believed to have been compiled around 300 BC, gives us an edited and anonymous treatment of some of the mathematics of Euclid’s predecessors, in a text that has passed through the hands of an unknown number of further scribes and editors before arriving at the versions that we now possess. ...Our evidence concerning pre-Euclidean mathematics is so indirect and fragmentary that the greatest part of the stories that are now told about the period must be invention."
"Nothing Almost all of our texts come from Constantinople, the earliest from 888 AD, closer [in] time to us than to the supposed date of Euclid!"
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.