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"We had second-hand clothes, we lived nine years in the Ukraine without running water so no showers for nine years! It was really tough to be honest with you"
"We weren't allowed to listen to music, no TV – I didn't know who Madonna was until I was 15. We actually left home when she was 12 and I was 15 to go and sing in a nightclub. And I just feel like we've been through the mill through our lives and I just feel like life's too short to sit around and be bummed out."
"You have to be positive, you have to stay happy, and we are here today because of our positive attitudes towards it."
"Our dad is very religious. He's got his own crazy ideologies of what he thinks it's all about so no"
"We were singing our whole lives but we were doing things like Christian music that my dad wrote. He's not happy about it. And he writes us these crazy emails saying, 'Repent' and that we're sinners. All in capitals with exclamation marks"
"Leaving week one was a bit of a shock, I didn't think we'd leave this soon. But we knew it was coming and week one, week six, it doesn't really make a difference."
"I'm so proud of the both of us, we desperately wanted to get into the live shows and we did. We don't care - we're just happy we got through this far."
"We took the show one day at a time and we just had fun, and that's all that matters to us. We were ourselves and we had so much fun on the show."
"And I think we nailed Kids In America with the theme. I loved the hula hoops and the dress and the green eyebrows. It was incredible and it really represented who we were!"
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.