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"When I arrived on the first day of the sit-in, I didn’t find human beings, I found lions determined to fight for their rights."
"Do anything to help, even if it’s just chanting and clapping against the regime."
"None of the existing workers unions defended us because they cared more about working with the government than speaking for regular people."
"I am optimistic because, unlike in the 1985 revolution, all of Sudan is participating. The new president will have to be fair with men and women."
"The war displaced my whole family and my children never healed from the horror they felt."
"What WFP is doing is not easy. It's what we need the most in Sudan because you’re mobilizing food around the world for people."
"They confiscate our belongings and take them to the police station, they make us pay a fine and then a week later they do it again. It’s because we’re not socially acceptable. They don’t want to see us on the streets."
"The people at the sit-in were like our children. We had suffered severely under the last regime, and we had hopes for change."
"Their families are still hoping that they’re alive. They don’t want to believe they’re dead."
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.