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"Of course, not everybody’s going to agree on everything and nor should they. But unless we can agree that the sky outside is blue and the grass is green, we have no chance."
"Do you know what? I think you will find that orthodoxies of all the established religions basically always go for us [women]. We always pay the price, the political price, the cultural price. Just look at what is happening in America."
"When #MeToo exploded, there was that real anger; you know, just what is it about the fact that we have breasts and we have genitals that still appears to be a great big green go sign for half the population? I believe that everybody who engages in that behaviour needs to be held accountable."
"One thing I really get annoyed with is this notion that journalists – in every film, every magazine article I see – must really get off on the adrenaline. It’s so wrong; it trivialises what we do."
"People don't understand that objectivity actually means pursuing the truth. But you get there by giving all sides a hearing, which doesn’t mean treating all sides equally—then you are an accomplice in these extreme situations."
"There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice."
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.