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"“I have had an amazing career over the past 40 years and worked with extraordinary people who share my passion for the food and drink industry,”"
""Now it is time for me to do something else while maintaining my interest in skills and young people. For me, the future is about continuing to be involved in the things I love while finding more time to enjoy my wonderful family and, in particular, my beautiful grandsons.”"
"For us, finding a solution is very, very important,"
"What is very important for us is regulatory standards. Absolutely key is that we have a convergence of that, that we avoid red tape,"
"“Industry must step up and help young people bridge the gap between education and employment,”"
"“We cannot leave this problem to the Government and schools. We need to work together to help young people – and to develop the next generation of skilled employees for the future.”"
"“As a country we walked away from apprenticeships and manufacturing generally. Now it’s very much back on the agenda, but we’ve got a lot of catching up to do to make sure we’re got the right skills.""
"“We have to bring young people in and really equip them, and move them through really fast. But we also have to up-skill – they are going to be the engineers for tomorrow.”"
"“Even out of the recession, we don’t believe that is going to come down massively,”"
"“It was hugely tough but we decided that my career would take the lead, so we put his business on ice and we went,” she says. “I have a great husband, that’s one of the magic ingredients.”"
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.