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"[Regarding the upcoming elections for President of the Italian Republic in 2013] Franco Marini turned 80 last week and is preparing for his final attempt to crown a career marked by prudence, impartiality, good neighbourliness, and a popular wisdom of which he is considered a masterful prophet."
"Letta learned from the Christian Democratic school that you cannot hold on to power for 50 years just by making compromises and taking steps backwards: there comes a time when you have to draw a line. In a word, take risks."
"Deaths at work are not a meteorological phenomenon. In 2009, in Italy, they fell below a thousand for the first time, three for every working day, and according to INAIL (the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work), the decline is also due to the crisis and the economic slowdown. In our system, therefore, a certain number of corpses is considered a natural product of industrial metabolism."
"Gianni Dragoni e Giorgio Meletti, La paga dei padroni, Chiarelettere, 2008. ISBN 9788861900578"
"Giorgio Meletti, Nel paese dei Moratti. Sarroch-Italia: una storia ordinaria di capitalismo coloniale, Chiarelettere, 2010. ISBN 9788861901186"
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.