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"The confiscation of Tai Ji Men’s sacred land in Miaoli in 2020 was an after-effect of a political campaign against spiritual movements undertaken more than twenty-eight years ago. It [had] also violated freedom of religion or belief, and the right to take part in cultural life as protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights."
"We aim to make Tainan a Muslim-friendly city with services from birth to death."
"Fortune's wheel turns every 30 years. And now, it is time for Kaohsiung to be the master and the focus of the Chinese community worldwide."
"Huang Kun-Kuang, a former senior auditor at the Kaohsiung Taxation Bureau, commented on the uniqueness of the Tai Ji Men case and the numerous violations of [the] law committed during its development. He said that in several decades as a tax auditor he had never seen a similar case and that, before dying, he wants to testify and publicly denounce its injustice."
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.