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"If you can create an opportunity for someone – who would otherwise be marginalised – to get an equal chance at the prize this is what matters."
"Racial stratification will demand you “stay there” – do not stay there. If this door won’t budge, try another."
"But the huge problem here is that it is up to the victim of discrimination to do all the work to fight it – and you become exhausted. They wear you down – if you let them."
"Don’t feel guilty for being white – do something with it’"
"You must first identify the advantage of white skin, before you can see the disadvantage experienced by those without it."
"The system breaks every conceivable human right and history will judge us on this. It must end"
"You can’t do anything about the colour of the skin you were born into but what you choose to do with that inheritance is very much up to you."
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.