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"I never cried about the cancer, or anything else, but I did that day."
"There were a lot of votes, as I look back, that were pretty big and important."
"I’m not looking back because there’s so much going forward that I need to get my arms around."
"I’m a fairly spiritual person, and I’ve felt I’ve been led to every job I’ve had."
"When you’re in government, there’s so much stuff that sometimes you don’t see as clearly — the specific needs and issues — because there’s so much fog that gets injected into each issue. And I think I’m able again to go back to the basics of where I was when I started in this business, which is: I’m here to represent my constituents and make life better for them. Pretty simple."
"I thought it was so unfair that they didn’t have the kind of support that we did in Moorestown, and that we should find a way to help them."
"They wanted a more youthful look. I was anchoring with men who had white hair."
"For women, once your age exceeds your bra size, they take you off the air."
"She’s been a competitor all her life, and she’s been a competitor against that disease"
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.