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"Shaun is an icon in our time. It is very inspiring to have shared these few precious moments with him today. The words that he shared are poignant with meaning as he not only understands the present but the relevance of the past"
"I am so impressed with having a young white person who shares the same hope for South Africa as I yearn for, and the same hope that my father lived and died for"
"Because he had become a nuisance to the regime. It’s recorded that they tried many ways of putting him out while he was alive so that he should not have a voice in the affairs of the country, but they failed"
"Now there was a powerful person and they could not stop him. As far as I’m concerned he (Luthuli) was buried alive because he was not allowed to go anywhere"
"The ANC needs to fire their president if they want to stay in power"
"Zuma was not elected by individuals but residents of the country. Therefore we cannot just fire him"
"We are very concerned about the generation we are leaving behind, it should be a generation that should know what to do for the country,” she said, commending Phansi museum on its efforts to make the youth aware of what was going on around them"
"Arts and Culture which allows us to know where we come from is not being taught at schools. I would like to encourage the youth to know that the birth of democracy and a new country did not mean that you were born free"
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.