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"My problem is that I try to do too many things - I never say no to anything"
"My ex-boss at Capital said one of the things he'd miss most about me is the 15 minutes at the beginning of a meeting when I don't turn up."
"In my previous job I used to struggle quite a lot with IT - I wouldn't have been seen dead with a laptop a year ago"
"I'd been there three days, but thought that if I at least had the presentation then I could blag it. Then I found out there was no presentation. In the end my old PA sent over a PowerPoint manual - it was the most appalling presentation ever, but very good for me."
"She's the best person I've ever worked for; I've learned more from her than I have in my entire life. She makes me look like a part-timer."
"She was an absolute inspiration for all of us; I've never known anyone throw themselves into their work so much. She's absolutely passionate about everything she does. She's a whirlwind, with real fire in her belly"
"Media owners are too old to cope with new technology"
"My parents had to learn to watch television, and I've had to learn the internet"
"f you learn a language when you're three years old, you'll be fluent, and if you learn when you're 23 you'll have an accent. All of us will have an accent when using technology"
"The question for all of us is not what is going to happen to our brand because of podcasting and all these wonderful tools - it's not about that"
"They might be able to podcast, but most people in the world are boring and they've got nothing to say."
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.