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"Find your identity, your true self and live your mission … Your power is your radical self. Find it."
"We have our own voices. We just need you to listen."
"As young people, you do not need permission to participate. You must occupy your space because there is no governance without citizen engagement and youth-led accountability."
"We cannot shrink the future of Africa in accepting its reality."
"We clearly live in an era where we have the most unequal societies of all time. The rich are becoming richer, the poor are becoming poorer."
"When injustice is perceived, young people look upon violent groups as legitimate fighters, not perpetrators of violence."
"Africa has the wealth to invest and the clearest path to reducing inequality is investing in African youth, our most important asset."
"It is my duty to make sure that young people hold governments accountable for the implementation of the frameworks they signed up for."
"I will always push for progressive, more inclusive and more empowered positions for young people across Africa."
"Maybe you're this or maybe you’re that. I lead with, “You’re African first."
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.