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"I am glad that The Gambia has endorsed the Ecowas Court judgment. I hope this serves as a lesson for governments to allow journalists do our work without harassment and intimidation. Our rights to freedom of expression, liberty, and freedom of movement should always be respected."
"People are living in fear, people are not comfortable, people cannot even talk on the phone because they're scared somebody could be listening to their conversation."
"Already people are running away from me, nobody wants to talk to me because nobody wants to get in trouble, so I think what I did is the best thing."
"I was told they have an executive directive that I should not appear on that TV again, you think it makes sense for me to stay there?"
"I think it's a group of people who are really jealous, who don't want me to do what I have to do or maybe I was becoming too popular for them,"
"How many people are jailed in Gambia based on anything because you know the judicial system, how do you trust it?"
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.