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"I wasn’t meant to live this long,I was a sickly baby but look at me, living and beautiful. That’s a blessing."
"I didn’t understand why I should be barred from that restaurant or being with that person."
"Home is a myth and, at some point, I had to accept that. I have lived in so many places and I have just learned to accept that you belong where you are."
"People in music want you to play small so you can make them feel better. That’s why you see so many bands break up no matter how talented they are."
"I’ve been fighting not for a particular area — I’ve been fighting for South Africa, I’ve been fighting for Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Congo and all these places. So I feel I don’t belong to one place."
"I’m a child of every part of this continent."
"The way of my singing is message. You send a message: It’s love, it’s sadness, it’s everything."
"They want to know how someone like me, who hasn’t studied music, can understand it so well."
"I didn’t plan to be a singer, singing planned to be in me."
"A response to the daily experience of being harassed, grabbed and catcalled at in public."
"She belonged to a generation of artists who transcended boundaries in art and politics long before we coined the concept of globalisation."
"Her music will leave on, and we will never forget her meticulous fashion sense. Because clothing is armour and makes important statements too."
"She was the living library of music and an iconic legend with vast experience."
"Her music uplifted the spirit of millions across the world."
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.