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"The Olympics proved to be a huge public relations exercise. Olympics don’t sell as football. It meant taking austerity measures."
"You could pay staff for a month and go for three months without pay. I cut the entitlements of the SG. The position attracted huge benefits. I postponed plans to purchase a new Mercedes for the SG, removed the travelling from first class to business class and moved out of a mansion to an apartment whose rental was one fifth of what the mansion cost."
"You needed a different person to implement the scheme."
"The best broadcaster still alive is my neighbour Batho Molema. He has absolutely no idea how I hold him in high esteem. Molema is a successful man in his own right. He was a pioneer."
"We have for example the SABC which has less stigma than ourselves but it is government controlled. We are at a stage where we should also know that the public is fairly sophisticated and so unless we project a more transparent image of both radio and television, news that come out of these media will always be regarded as propaganda."
"When I ran the Round Table show there was no interference on my show. As the former director I never experienced any interference from anyone although I was called a puppet. Everyone called me the chief censor of news. I didn’t blame them because I was 100 percent owned by the government,"
"I am not in a hurry to publish, but I have already written some 400 pages of non fiction. It is not a kiss and tell story, but it is about my experiences in life as a journalist, as I traveled around the world. It will take time to finish it because it is research-based, which is quite demanding."
"It is about my vast experiences, my out look on African politics such as in Senegal, where I once worked. As a journalist, I would also air my views about journalism in Botswana, its growth, especially the private media. If you travel around the world you experience situations, it would be about what I was exposed to, the events I watched. The book will have a lot of issues on politics, the economy, even on cattle."
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.