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"There will be no radical shakeup."
"You don't fix what works well."
"improve and change things where there is a need to do so."
"At the time there was a critical shortage of doctors in the country and so we had to cope with the huge demand for medical care."
"I thought that rather than looking at patients in the hospital it was better to go out into the communities and check and look at the issue in a broader view. I then made up my mind to shift from internal medicine to public health."
"But we must be realistic in relation to realities."
"WHO is not a political organisation."
"It is a technical organisation and we operate on the basis of the health and technical needs of member states and we do things according to our organisation's interests and mandate."
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.