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"The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. My prayer is, may our loyalty never be tested.”"
"The more transport infrastructure we provide the more efficient the economy becomes, resulting in more business opportunities."
"The health of the private sector in any economy is a fair measure of how prosperous and democratic that economy is."
"I have played my role but people can decide whether it is quiet or not"
"Democracy does not guarantee that the leader or those leaders will deliver or indeed are able to deliver on what we want."
"I think the debate we must have is whether we really want autonomous local government. As it stands today, it is unrealistic to expect autonomy for local governments created by the constitution. They were not meant to be autonomous"
"Local government autonomy unrealistic, says Fashola"
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.