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"I would like to say my husband and the girls, but they are not my belongings, so my home, because that is where Charles i and all my treasured memories of family."
"There have been so many and I hope so many yet to come, but the Gap ad I did in the ‘80s was my personal fiftee minutes, especially chasing it round Trafalgar Square when it was on a bus, and then it was ten buses all together—genius."
"Tell your parents that you love them very much, keep your photo albums up to date, don’t be shy as no one is looking at you, don’t be angry, don’t throw away all your clothes from the ‘80s, and buy that hotel in Miami Beach when it was offered to you in the ‘80s."
"I basically looked at magazines with my mother every month. I remember it really well, sitting on the sofa and looking at Vogue magazine"
"That was one of those things I did with her. I also always loved watching films, the old black-and-white movies and seeing all the fashion in those, that’s what sparked my interest."
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.